[Distutils] Just an idea

[Harry Henry Gebel]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:18:07PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 25 April 2000, Harry Henry Gebel said:
> > Just an idea for generating both .pyc and .pyo byte code: have a new
> > command that just generates byte code in an already installed set of
> > files, (perhaps `setup.py compile_only`), then spawn
> > 
> > python -o setup.py compile_only
> > 
> > from within `setup.py install`
> 
> The question is, is it worth the complexity and expense of a whole new
> Distutils command, or should we just spawn a simple "python -c
> 'compileall(...)'" command, or should be generate a temporary script and
> run it?
> 
> I'm leaning towards the generate-a-temporary-script approach.  Any thoughts?

Yes, a temporary script is better, it was in the working on bdist_rpm
(which has a child process of setup.py (rpm) running it's own copy of
setup.py) that put in me in the frame of mind for my idea.

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Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS
West Dover Hundred, Delaware

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