[Distutils] Proposal: C/C++ compiler identification

[John Skaller]

>[John Skaller]
>>         So, it would be relatively easily to generate a standard
>> python module?
>
>Without more context I don't know what you mean by "generate a
>standard Python module".  

        Sorry: the intent is to generate a python
module containing enough information to compile any
'standard' C extension to python without makefiles
and on any platform.

        Note: the assumption is that the extension
builder is the same system as that which compiled
Python. So a C compiler is available by assumption.
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