[Distutils] Was I asleep?

[Mark W. Alexander]

Hmm....

First, thanks!

Second, I swear this is exactly what I did and it didn't work.
Just now I went back and commented out the "old-style" and
uncommented my Extension class attempt and it worked just fine.

Must of been a brain fart....

Third, yes it's alot cleaner and clearer.

And finally....Documentation. What's with perl and LaTeX2HTML?
My need for documentation is growing since I'm trying to
do bdist_pkgtool and bdist_sdux in, well let's just say
a less casual approach. bdist_pkgtool has stuff hard-coded
("build/lib", etc) because I didn't have time to really
figure out the correct ways to find information. Is there
any hacker's guide to distutils info any where (beside's
the source, of course!). Especially what bdist_* has
available....

Mark Alexander
mwa@gate.net


On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Greg Ward wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:45:29 -0400
> From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
> To: distutils-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Was I asleep? (Extension instance message)
> 
> On 24 August 2000, Mark W. Alexander said:
> > warning: build_ext: old-style (ext_name, build_info) tuple found in ext_modules 
> > for extension '(module_name)'-- please convert to Extension instance
> > 
> > Say what?
> > 
> > I don't remember this on the list, and I can't find any docs, so I decipher
> > distutils extension.py and make something like:
> 
> Hmm, I *thought* I mentioned it on the list.  There was no great hue and 
> cry, so I didn't think it was a big deal.  It is documented, but only in 
> the CVS docs -- I am still trying to work up the courage to beat Perl
> and LaTeX2HTML into submission.
> 
> Take a look in any of the example setup scripts in examples,
> eg. examples/xml_setup.py has:
> 
>        ext_modules = [Extension('sgmlop',
>                                 ['extensions/sgmlop.c']),
>                       Extension('xml.unicode.wstrop',
>                                 ['extensions/wstrop.c']),
>                       Extension('xml.parsers.pyexpat',
>                                 ['extensions/pyexpat.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmltok/xmltok.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmltok/xmlrole.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmlwf/xmlfile.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmlwf/xmlwf.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmlwf/codepage.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c',
>                                  'extensions/expat/xmlparse/hashtable.c',
>                                  FILEMAP_SRC,],
>                                 define_macros = [('XML_NS', None)],
>                                 include_dirs = [ 'extensions/expat/xmltok',
>                                                  'extensions/expat/xmlparse' ],
>                                 )
>                       ]
> 
> which I think you'll agree is a lot more readable (and writeable) than
> the old hairy list-of-tuples-of-dicts (or whatever it was) mess.
> 
>         Greg
> -- 
> Greg Ward - Unix nerd                                   gward@python.net
> http://starship.python.net/~gward/
> What happens if you touch these two wires tog--
> 
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