Feb. 11, 2009
9:33 p.m.
Jim Baker wrote:
+1 on the cleanup: reading the bug description of http://bugs.python.org/issue1533164, this will also help Jython. Now I know why we see scenarios of package with setup.cfg with optimize=1:
Indeed, this is a well-known issue. Many packages put an "optimize=1" in their setup.cfg in order to solve it.
Unfortunately that breaks the setup process on Jython, since we don't support -O. And unfortunately it's not as easy to ignore the flag either, this can then break in other ways.
- Jim
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