[Python-Dev] importlib is now bootstrapped (and what that means)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:33:45 -0400
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:08, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> 
> > > So like execute hg diff on the dependent files and if nothing changed
> > > then touch the auto-generated file w/ 'touch' to prevent future attempts
> > > to execute the target?
> >
> > Exactly. There might be something better than hg diff, perhaps some form
> > of hg status.
> >
> 
> Yeah, hg status is probably better. Now someone just needs to write the
> shell script. =)

Wouldn't it be better if Python could compile regardless of the
presence of a hg repository?

Regards

Antoine.