"Jack" == Jack Jansen
writes:
Jack> But I'm not too thrilled with fink and /sw support in Jack> general: it's just too easy to build an executable or plugin Jack> module that doesn't work on other machines (if you have fink Jack> stuff installed and the other machine doesn't). And while Jack> this is uncommon on most unix machines it's much more common Jack> on the Mac. If you're saying that you think Python should ignore Fink in both configure and setup.py, I tend to agree, although I'm a Fink user. Mostly I use Fink sources; they take care of it. Jack> Could we add a configure flag --with[out]-fink that governs Jack> adding /sw to search paths in both configure and setup.py, Jack> or is that overkill? If you're going to do this for Fink, don't you want to do it for DarwinPorts too? XEmacs's configure has a --site-prefixes switch such that --site-prefixes=/sw does both --site-includes=/sw/include and --site-libraries=/sw/lib. This handles both Fink and DarwinPorts (and anythign else that might come along) in a sensible way. Isn't that a generic autoconf feature? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.