[Distutils] Supporting extensibility in disutils

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Mon Aug 2 19:06:23 CEST 2004


On Monday 02 August 2004 01:04 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
 > FYI, this can be done right now with something like:
...
 > although that's admittedly kludgy.  But it's kludgy in a
 > backwards-compatible way.  :)

This requires introducing more Python code, which suggests to be that the 
setup.py file would need to be modified.  This is something I very much want 
to avoid; if I'm willing to change the setup.py, then there isn't much of a 
problem to begin with.

But you're right; that's *really* kludgy.


  -Fred

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