[Distutils] Changes in r72585

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hi Tim, thanks for the feedback,

this has been fixed in r72758

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py?r1=72593&r2=72758

Regards
Tarek

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> [coming from a thread on python-win32:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2009-May/009130.html
> ]
>
> In short: changes to build_ext.py in r72585 caused the pywin32
> packages to stop building correctly. The changes in question
> are those which call get_ext_filename with the short form of
> the ext.name (without the package prefix). The pywin32 setup.py
> expects the fully-qualified name in the get_ext_filename in
> its subclass.
>
> Now I don't know whether this is an incautious change to build_ext
> or a false -- altho' historically valid -- assumption on the part
> of the pywin32 developers. You can see their code here at line 1119:
>
> http://pywin32.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pywin32/pywin32/setup.py?revision=1.107&view=markup
>
> I'm afraid I'm fairly ignorant of the design rationale behind
> distutils; I'm hoping someone here has a better idea :)
>
> Opinions?
>
> TJG
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