[pypy-dev] RPython proposed deprecation: translator.platform .distutils_platform

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

+1

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition to the arm, bsd, cygwin, darwin, freebsd, linux, maemo (really?)
> netbsd, openbsd, posix, and windows rpython/translator/platforms, we have
> one called "distutils_platform" that is allegedly supposed to allow one to
> specify the target platform and use distutils factilities to compile an
> RPython program for that target. I would like to deprecate (remove) it. The
> trigger for my proposal is the need to import setuptools to enable disutils
> to find the MSVC compiler on a system that uses the "Visual for Python"
> compilers, which I came across when setting up a new win32 build slave.
> Rather than try and fix the problem I would prefer to remove the platform.
>
> Any objections?
> Matti
>
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