[Patches] [Patch #102588] PEP 229: Use Distutils to build

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Patch #102588 has been updated. 

Project: python
Category: Build
Status: Open
Submitted by: akuchling
Assigned to : akuchling
Summary: PEP 229: Use Distutils to build

Follow-Ups:

Date: 2001-Jan-21 20:25
By: jlt63

Comment:
While working on the build so that Cygwin Python builds OOTB again, I
found the following issues now that Python is using Distutils
intrinsically:

1. setup.py needs to improve its ability to select only platform
appropriate modules.  I believe that this has already been discussed
on python-dev.
2. make install is not passing $(prefix) to setup.py so the standard
extension modules are always installed in the configured location and
cannot be overridden at install time.
3. make install fails during the regen step for platforms that do not
have a Lib/platform-foo in CVS.  This is due to PYTHONPATH no longer
being set correctly.
4. Most of the standard extension modules have different filenames (i.e.,
missing "module") than they had in 2.0.  For example on Linux, the
socket module was called _socketmodule.so -- now it is called _socket.so.

FYI, I have submitted the following patch:

http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=102409&group_id=5470

which has a Cygwin specific solution for 1 and platform independent
solutions for 2 and 3.

I just noticed your comment regarding setup.cfg, but maybe my "solution"
to 2 will prove useful anyway.
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Date: 2001-Jan-16 14:53
By: akuchling

Comment:
I've made an updated version of the patch; because it's 55K, 
SF won't accept it, so I've put it at 
http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/files/python/pep229.patch.  

There are only a very few things left to fix at this point:

* setup.cfg hard-wires the installation directory
because it has no access to a variable holding the installation prefix

* installs in subdirectories don't work because setup.cfg is only found in
the current directory.

I think those are the only two remaining issues before this can be checked
in (doubtless causing the sun to explode).

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Date: 2000-Nov-29 20:18
By: akuchling

Comment:
Not ready to be reviewed yet; I'm submitting this patch just to demonstrate
some progress.

This version of the patch just removes the use of makesetup in building the
interpreter, and hard-codes the presence of strop, posix, and _sre.  
Still to be done: write the top-level setup.py, and handle a few tricky
bits such as the signalmodule.

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Date: 2000-Dec-01 15:26
By: gvanrossum

Comment:
Would you mind explaining what the patch does in the PEP?
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For more info, visit:

http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=102588&group_id=5470