On Friday 14 June 2002 10:04 am, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: ...
distutils, as the name says, is a tool for distributing source code; that doesn't have much to do with developing code where dependency analysis is nice to have since it saves compile
However, distutils is already today the handiest building environment, particularly if your extension needs to support several platforms and/or several versions of Python.
The question is whether we want distutils to be a development tool as well, or rather stick to its main purpose: that of simplifying distribution and installation of software (and thanks to Greg, it's great at that !).
The "problem" (:-) is that it's great at just building extensions, too. python2.1 setup.py install, python2.2 setup.py install, python2.3 setup.py install, and hey pronto, I have my extension built and installed on all Python versions I want to support, ready for testing. Hard to beat!-) Alex