[Distutils] Beginnings of a C/C++ compiler interface

[Fred L. Drake]

Ovidiu Predescu writes:
 > This sounds a lot like GNU autoconf so why we are not using it?

  Yes, it does.

 > Am I missing something?

  Macintosh, Windows, and other operating systems.  We cannot assume
that GNUish tools are installed on those systems.
  For a number of people, there's a licensing issue with GNUish tools
as well.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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