[Distutils] C extension dependencies

[Paul Moore]

On 11 September 2014 08:15, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> Perhaps the gains wouldn’t be worth the complexity though and it’d
> just be easier to allow projects to have a build hint thing that gets
> printed if the build fails.

Putting it in core pip sounds to me like a recipe for endless
system-specific hacks, TBH. Having a plugin system that allowed
external packages to add (and maintain!) system-specific checks might
work, but that's pretty complex.

Paul