[Mailman-Developers] Install problems for mailman-3.0.0a7 on Debian Squeeze

Barry Warsaw barry at list.org
Mon Jul 11 20:12:19 CEST 2011


On Jul 07, 2011, at 08:54 AM, Paul Wise wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Pavel Šimerda wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to have some more reasonable way to present this
>> info to the user?
>
>Agreed.
>
>Does distutils have the equivalent of autoconf for checking for
>dependencies before starting the build?

Probably not without writing some custom code for setup.py.  I'm not psyched
about that though because it could be fragile, and won't play well in a
packaging/distuils2 world.

-Barry
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