[Python-Dev] Unicode charmap decoders slow

["Martin v. Löwis"]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>It wouldn't.
> 
> 
> Could you elaborate why not ? Using distutils on Windows is really
> easy...

The current build process for Windows simply doesn't provide it.
You expect to select "Build/All" from the menu (or some such),
and expect all code to be compiled. The VC build process only
considers VC project files.

Maybe it is possible to hack up a project file to invoke distutils
as the build process, but no such project file is currently available,
nor is it known whether it is possible to create one. Whatever the
build process: it should properly with debug and release build,
with alternative compilers (such as Itanium compiler), and place
the files so that debugging from the VStudio environment is possible.
All of this is not the case of today, and nobody has worked on
making it possible. I very much doubt distutils in its current form
could handle it.

Regards,
Martin