[Python-Dev] PEP 229 and 222

[Thomas Heller]

> > Beats me.  I'm not even sure if the Distutils offers a way to compile
> > a static Python binary.  (GPW: well, does it?)
> 
> It's in the CCompiler interface, but hasn't been exposed to the outside
> world.  (IOW, it's mainly a question of desiging the right setup
> script/command line interface: the implementation should be fairly
> straightforward, assuming the existing CCompiler classes do the right
> thing for generating binary executables.)
Distutils currently only supports build_*** commands for
C-libraries and Python extensions.

Shouldn't there also be build commands for shared libraries,
executable programs and static Python binaries?

Thomas

BTW: Distutils-sig seems pretty dead these days...