[Distutils] clean and swig/pyrex

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Oct 24 01:18:16 CEST 2006


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Eric Huss wrote:
> I've noticed that the "clean" command does not remove files generated by
> swig or pyrex (since pyrex uses the same swig interface).  Does anyone
> have any suggestions on how to make that work, or a suggestion on how to
> enhance distutils to make it work?

Shouldn't such "generated sources" be removed only by something like
'distclean'?  Otherwise, it becomse unsafe to distribute except to those
who have swig / pyrex themselves to do the generation.


Tres.
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