[Python-Dev] setup.py is too aggressive

[Greg Ward]

On 24 March 2001, Martin von Loewis said:
> There should be a mechanism to tell setup.py not to build a module at
> all. Since it is looking into Modules/Setup anyway, perhaps a
> 
> *excluded*
> dbm
> 
> syntax in Modules/Setup would be appropriate? Of course, makesetup
> needs to be taught such a syntax. Alternatively, an additional
> configuration file or command line options might work.

FWIW, any new "Setup" syntax would also have to be taught to the
'read_setup_file()' function in distutils.extension.

        Greg
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