Hi all -- anyone keeping up with the Distutils CVS archive may have noticed these changes, but I thought I should mention them just so everyone's up to speed. First, the "install" command is in a state of disrepair. The most-recent checkin was an incomplete, unfinished, aborted idea -- only checked it in for posterity. Don't even bother trying to use it. Second, the "build" commands have been undergoing some upheaval. The reasons are: * put compiler turds (object files, in particular, but also the stuff that MSVC leaves behind on linking a DLL) in a temp directory -- eg. build/temp.linux-i586 on my machine. * make the "is this a pure Python distribution or a distribution with extensions?" decision at build time rather than install time -- the effect of this is that *everything* will build to either build/lib or build/lib.<plat> * support building extensions right into the source tree, so that developers hacking away on an extension don't have to screw around with "building" Python modules or mucking with PYTHONPATH (or kludging sys.path) I'm still working on the "build_lib" command, which I think I'm going to rename to "build_clib", since that's what it does. (The terminology I'm gravitating towards is that "lib" means "Python library directory", "purelib" means "pure Python library directory", and "platlib" means "platform-specific Python library directory". Thus it's misleading to call the command that builds C/C++ libraries "build_lib", since it has nothing to do with Python libraries.) But the basic Python building stuff -- pure Python and extensions -- seems to be working. Check it out and give it a spin if you're feeling brave. Maybe tomorrow at work I'll actually test it on a platform other than Linux. ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix bigot gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ "When I hear the word `culture', I reach for my gun." --Goebbels "When I hear the word `Microsoft', *I* reach for *my* gun." --me