Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

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Can we just rename them? I.e. bsddbmodule-failed.so

So long as it's bsddbmodule_failed.so, +1.

It shouldn't be difficult.

+1.

It's about this hard, in fact: Index: setup.py =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/setup.py,v retrieving revision 1.82 diff -c -r1.82 setup.py *** setup.py 16 Feb 2002 18:23:29 -0000 1.82 --- setup.py 1 Mar 2002 13:35:04 -0000 *************** *** 176,188 **** except ImportError, why: if 1: ! self.announce('*** WARNING: removing "%s" since importing it' ' failed: %s' % (ext.name, why)) assert not self.inplace ! fullname = self.get_ext_fullname(ext.name) ! ext_filename = os.path.join(self.build_lib, ! self.get_ext_filename(fullname)) ! os.remove(ext_filename) # XXX -- This relies on a Vile HACK in # distutils.command.build_ext.build_extension(). The --- 176,187 ---- except ImportError, why: if 1: ! self.announce('*** WARNING: renaming "%s" since importing it' ' failed: %s' % (ext.name, why)) assert not self.inplace ! basename, tail = os.path.splitext(ext_filename) ! newname = basename + "_failed" + tail ! os.rename(ext_filename, newname) # XXX -- This relies on a Vile HACK in # distutils.command.build_ext.build_extension(). The One little point (or I'd have checked it in already): should we make efforts to not install the _failed.so turds? Cheers, M. -- C is not clean -- the language has _many_ gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are _simple_ in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp