[Distutils] People want CPAN

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
> <floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> [..]
>>> Is that scraping, or just preparing finalized options using "configure" ?
>>> Meaning other command would just have to get them when they run, if present ?
>>>
>>> How would that work ? configure would create a file ?
>>
>> That would be the obvious solution.  Both autoconf and CPAN do this by
>> my understanding so it's a pretty logical thing to do.
>
> I find it logical too now.

Scons and waf do it through a db kind of file, but that's because they
are much more fancy (scons for example keeps so called signature of
every command and nodes to know what has already been built or not).

A first step as a plain file, which should clearly be marked as
implementation-defined and only guaranteed to work through an API is
the way to go I think.

David