[Distutils] Do we need an install_clib command?

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri Feb 9 14:57:02 2001


Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> I recently came to think about an install_clib command.
> 
> The current build_clib builds static libraries,
> but they can only be used to link them into extensions.
> 
> Sometimes it may be usefull to have static libraries
> around.

True, but then we'd also have to support dynamic libs for
completeness (even though I believe that tools like RPM do
a better job at managing these).

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