[Distutils] imho Distutils should stop this from happening to poor users....

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 18 Jun, 2009, at 11:22, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Ronald Oussoren<ronaldoussoren at mac.com 
> > wrote:
>> The only way to achieve that at the moment is to add some code to  
>> setup.py
>> that explicitly raises an exception when you try to build it on an
>> unsupported platform.
>
> Or to provide binary releases because python version and os info are
> set in the archive name.
> But it's hackish.

A binary release that does nothing would indeed be hackish, and would  
be worse than the existing error because a binary package gives the  
impression that the platform is actually supported.

Ronald