Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Hello,
http://bugs.python.org/issue4359 reminds me that Distutils reads build files like Makefile or pyconfig.h to get some environment variables through the sysconfig module at *runtime*.
This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped with python but python-devel. (like Fedora)
Do we really want to change distutils to solve a problem of a third party packaging system when the problem was created by the very same third party in the first place? In other words: Should you spend your precious development time with fixing a problem that isn't our fault? The decision to split the header files into a separate package, that isn't installed by default, has already created tons of bad user experience in the past. Do you want to endorse the split even further? -0 from me Christian