[Python-Dev] Pass possibly imcompatible options to distutil's ccompiler

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:04 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> As I read it, Nick's thought wasn't that distutils2 would help the OP,
> but that the OP could help Distutils2 and the community by taking his
> use case to the developers and making sure that that use case is
> supported before the release of packaging in 3.3.

A little of both, actually. (I don't know either distutils or
distutils2 well enough to know precisely what the latter handles
better, I just know that it is designed to be easier to extend without
being as fragile as custom commands in distutils)

Cheers,
Nick.

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