Sept. 6, 2001
8:56 p.m.
On 06 September 2001, Guido van Rossum said:
Of course, there's the slight problem that you can't write the autoconfiguration for Python itself in Python. This reduces the motivation, I suppose. :-(
Well, we could do the "probe for bsddb"-like stuff right, and in Python. Just not the "is this a 64-bit left-handed albino operating system with a broken stdio?" stuff. Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux nerd gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Dyslexics of the world, untie!