On Jul 07, 2011, at 08:54 AM, Paul Wise wrote:

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Pavel Šimerda wrote:

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Wouldn't it be nice to have some more reasonable way to present this info to the user?

Agreed.

Does distutils have the equivalent of autoconf for checking for dependencies before starting the build?

Probably not without writing some custom code for setup.py. I'm not psyched about that though because it could be fragile, and won't play well in a packaging/distuils2 world.

-Barry