[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 3 23:39:19 CET 2010


>> For example, I keep running into the issue that distutils doesn't
>> currently support parallel builds. I have been pondering supporting
>> "-j" for building extensions, using both unbounded "-j" and the GNU make
>> style -jN build server. However, I know that the patch will be rejected,
>> so I don't even start working on it.
> This would be a very useful feature for distutils2.

But I'm not interested at all in having it in distutils2. I want the
Python build itself to use it, and alas, I can't because of the freeze.

Regards,
Martin


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