Re: [Python-Dev] _sre as part of python.dll

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:

This has immediately resulted in a decrease in my workload: whereas previously whenever someone decided to add the kaboozle module I had to add project files for this, etc etc etc, all that is now often taken care of by distutils and setup.py.

Reducing the workload is a good thing, and so is sharing of build processes across many systems; I'm not proposing to give that up. At the moment, I'm really asking about Windows only; I'll ask about adding things back into Setup.dist when I can show what advantages that has. That does not mean that those things would be removed from setup.py - that is smart enough to build only things that haven't already been build. Regards, Martin