[Python-Dev] What to do about PEP 229?
Andrew Kuchling
akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:17:39 -0500
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:39:18PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>Can't distutils try both and then settle for the working combination ?
I'm worried about subtle problems; what if an unneeded -lfoo drags in
a customized malloc, or has symbols which conflict with some other
library.
>... BTW, where is Greg ? I haven't heard from him in quite a while.]
Still around; he just hasn't been posting much these days.
>Why not parse Setup and use it as input to distutils setup.py ?
That was option 1. The existing Setup format doesn't really contain
enough intelligence, though; the intelligence is usually in comments
such as "Uncomment the following line for Solaris". So either the
Setup format is modified (bad, since we'd break existing 3rd-party
packages that still use a Makefile.pre.in), or I give up and just do
everything in a setup.py.
--amk