"Jeremy Hylton"
Mark Hammond wrote:
Not sure what you mean here? I did find it strange that I could not setup the compiler as I would for any other project on the planet (ie, vie the env vars that the compiler itself supports), but that was pronounced to be a feature of distutils, so I dropped it.
Let's not drop it. When I asked about this feature years ago, I dropped it because people told me that real Windows users would never want this feature.
IIRC, you asked for this feature because you had a misconfigured VC 6 installation - probably because you never ran the gui after installing the compiler.
Presumably that only reason I was asking was that I was a wayward Unix developer in Windows land. You, on the other hand, can make some claim to being a real Windows user.
A patch to honor environment variables when they are set would help developers and, presumably, hurt no one. (No real Windows user would set an environment variable anyway.)
I'm not sure I'm in the position to pronounce on this, but: If someone comes up with a patch that does this, I have nothing against it. But I'm not prepared to support and/or debug configurations the users may have which are very different from my own. If I understand Mark correctly, the MSVC 7 GUI doesn't pick up the enviroment vars itself - this is (one of?) the difficultiy I see. Thomas