On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com> wrote: [..]
I've brought the issue of Makefile and pyconfig.h being needed for distutils to the attention of every new Fedora python maintainer since the package split was made. The current maintainer, David Malcolm, agrees that distutils.sysconfig needs to be able to use this data and he has moved the Makefile and header files into the main python package. This doesn't change the problems with using a Makefile and C header files as a data format for python.
Great News ! Now for the format problem, I agree that it seems more robust to pre-process the variables and inject them in the stdlib when ./configure is run. I am not sure what is the best strategy here, but I would rather not add yet another configuration file (wether its an xml format or an ini-like format). So what I am proposing is to inject those values in a private dict in the new sysconfig.py module, that can be read through the get_config_vars / get_config_var APIs. This means that sysconfig.py will be added as "sysconfig.py.in" Regards Tarek