[Python-Dev] Unicode charmap decoders slow

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Trent Mick wrote:
> [Martin v. Loewis wrote]
> 
>>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. 
> 
> 
> This is essentially what the "_ssl" project does, no? 

More or less, yes. It does support both debug and release build. It
does not support Itanium builds (atleast not the way the other projects
do); as a result, the Itanium build currently just doesn't offer SSL.

More importantly, build_ssl.py is not based on distutils. Instead, it
is manually hacked up - a VBScript file would have worked as well. So
if you were to create many custom build scripts (one per codec), you
might just as well generate the VS project files directly.

Regards,
Martin