Greg Ward wrote:
... *This* version should run as one of the last steps of the distutils installation process, ie. this is the hack that'll work with Python 1.5.2. The nice version that will be bundled with Python 1.6 (I'm hoping!) might just be this again, or it might have more direct knowledge of Python's configure-time information. But it should run as part of Python's build process, so it won't go looking in sys.exec_prefix + lib + python + ... -- it'll just find stuff in the current (Python build) directory.
But for the first version of distutils, I think this is what we need.
Re: Fred Drake asking about the caveat I mentioned. This is it: in the future, the build process just spits out a bunch of assignments. For 1.5.2, we don't have that luxury, so it gets a bit more complicated. Cheers, -g
... P.S. I would like to suggest one coding standard for the project: every source file should have the name and email address of the person who wrote it, the date it was started, and and RCS/CVS identifier of some kind (I'm partial to $Id$ myself, but $Revision$ is also fine). Any objections?
hehe... boy, you do like things in a particular way, don't you? Now I know where the version number stuff came from :-) For better or worse, I don't think you're going to get the level of compliance that you want here. You'll see :-) hehe.... -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/