Just van Rossum writes:

What's the intended behavior if an extension fails to build? Should it print an error message and continue, or should it stop? (On the Mac distutils currently stops, which is kindof a nuisance, so I'm tempted to "fix" it...)

I think distutils should print an error and stop by default. That way users trying to build an extension immediately know that something went wrong. A command line option to make distutils try to go on if an error occurs might be useful, though, as long a clear message that an error occurred and the commands weren't completed successfully is printed at the end. Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ MapIt! http://mapit.de/