June 24, 2010
9:37 p.m.
Your plan seems good. Adding keyword arguments should not create compatibility issues, and I suspect the impact on the code of build_ext may be actually quite small. I’ll try to review your patch even though I don’t know C or compiler oddities, but Tarek will have the best insight and the final word. In case the time machine’s not available, your suggestion about getting the filename from the Extension instance instead of passing in a string can most certainly land in distutils2. Regards