13 Jun
2002
13 Jun
'02
5:51 p.m.
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I wonder if it would be better to have distutils generate the appropriate type of makefile and execute that instead of directly building objects and shared libraries. This would finesse some of the dependency tracking problems that pop up frequently.
But that doesn't work for platforms that don't have a Make. And while Windows has one, its file format is completely different, so you'd have to teach distutils how to write each platform's Makefile format. -1 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)