[Python-Dev] setup.py deleting files (Was: SSL support in _socket)

[Michael Hudson]

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

> >>>>> "MvL" == Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
>     MvL> I now recall why setup.py deletes modules that cannot be
>     MvL> imported: If they would be left there, the test cases would
>     MvL> fail with the ImportError. People had been complaining that
>     MvL> they get testsuite failures, so we changed setup.py to remove
>     MvL> the modules which clearly don't work.
> 
> Can we just rename them?  I.e. bsddbmodule-failed.so

So long as it's bsddbmodule_failed.so, +1.

It shouldn't be difficult.

Cheers,
M.

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