[Distutils] Extending distutils with 3rd party build commands?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Friday 22 October 2004 06:04 pm, Bob Ippolito wrote:
 > That does indeed support this use case.. I may have to move things
 > around in the package a bit to support it, but it may just work.

It does require arranging the command classes the same way they're arranged in 
distutils itself, but that seemed fairly reasonable.

 > Now what about the "Python installations distutils config file"?
 > Where's that located?  I don't see it referenced in the documentation..
 >   Can that file be placed somewhere on site-packages like sitecustomize
 > (good), or does it require editing a root-owned vendor file (bad)?

See the distutils documentation for this as well:

    http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/inst/config-syntax.html

(Yeah, I know, it's really hard to find things in the distutils 
documentation.)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>