[Python-Dev] HP-UX clean-up

[Cameron Laird]

> From skip at mojam.com Wed Jan 07 17:54:01 2004
> Envelope-to: claird at phaseit.net
> From: Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com>
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> To paraphrase Tim, Guido, MvL and many others: "Patches are welcome".  You
> knew that would be the canned reply, right?  <wink>

> The Python configure script has been around for a long time.  I suspect much
> of the cruft that's there is simply because it hasn't kept up with newer
> versions of autoconf.  The sizeof check for the char type probably predates
> the decision to require an ANSI C compiler.  I can probably elide that
> without breaking too much.

>     Zack> Another cleanup that would be nice is to get rid of Modules/Setup
>     Zack> and related; as I understand it, this is only around because the
>     Zack> top level setup.py hasn't been finished yet.  (And for a pipe
>     Zack> dream, could we have a way to set the disabled_module_list from
>     Zack> the configure command line?)

> Nothing's really ever finished, least of all distutils...  I believe
> Modules/Setup is still the best (only?) way to create a statically linked
> interpreter (all extension modules builtin) or add your own extension
> modules without fiddling setup.py.

> Skip

I'm the kind of developer who thinks it very desirable
to embed in configure.in such lines as
  # January 2004:  Skip Montanaro explains that he
  # "believe[s] Modules/Setup is still the best ...
  # ...

In the absence of objections, I'm likely to start
submitting patches to the effect later this month.