[Python-Dev] Platform extension for distutils on other interpreters than CPython

[Frank Wierzbicki]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to have a feature on platform module (or sys or
> somewhere) that can tell distutils or distutils2 that this platform
> (be it PyPy or Jython) is not able to compile any C module. The
> purpose of this is to make distutils bail out in more reasonable
> manner than a compilation error in case this module is not going to
> work on anything but CPython.
FWIW this would be helpful for Jython too.

-Frank