[Distutils] I browsed through the distutils source!

[Michel Sanner]

Hi Greg,

sorry , didn't have time to look at this yet .. just a question/suggestion
What I really like about Makefiles is the -n mode where I can see what it would
do before it actually does it. Is duch an option available in setup.py and if
not could it be added.

Cheers

-Michel

On Mar 30,  2:01pm, Greg Ward wrote:

> > report on what happened.
>
> There's not much to running it; from the top distutils directory, do:
>
>   ./setup.py build
>
> should work pretty much anywhere.  A slightly more risky proposition is
>
>   ./setup.py install
>
> which relies on distutils.sysconfig to get the installation directories;
> it in turn relies on finding Python's Makefiles in the usual place.  I
> have no idea if they're even installed under Win 95 -- please let me
> know!
>
> > Greg, anything you'd like me to examine especially?
>
> The weak spots!  Search for "XXX" in the code; I'm liberal with X-rated
> comments.  Also check my "Current weaknesses" post from last night; see
> if you can correlate my opinions of current problems with the code.
>
> When it occurs to you that commands are a lot like subroutines, and then
> when you start to wonder why parameter passing is done backwards, then
> you'll be up to speed.  (The whole problem of communicating options
> between commands was bigger than I expected.  The implementation isn't
> overly complicated, but I think it'll take some bouncing around across
> various classes and thinking about the alternatives before it becomes
> apparent why I did it that way.)
>
> Oh, the big reason I put the code up now is this: I think it's close to
> being at a state where development can be in parallel.  The basic
> framework is in place, all that's missing is a lot of commands to do the
> work.  The beginnings of building and installation are in place, and
> I've started thinking about the 'build_ext' command -- witness the
> thread on compiler abstraction models.  But the "dist" and "bdist"
> commands -- to create source and built distributions -- are important
> and could easily be done by someone else.
>
>         Greg
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