[Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils

[Georg Brandl]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped
>> with python but python-devel. (like Fedora)
> 
> This practice is stupid anyway, because it means you have to install
> python-devel even to install pure Python packages with setuptools/distribute.
> Just ask Fedora, Mandriva and friends to change their packaging practice
> (Mandriva already has a bug open for that by the way).

+1.  They are the ones splitting what "make install" installs into several
packages, so they are the ones who have to fix the resulting dependency
problems.

Georg

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