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[Alex Martelli]

Anders J. Munch wrote:

> "Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote:
>> You don't have a Microsoft C compiler.  The distutils
>> (invoked by the setup.py you mention) by default
>> assume you are using MS Visual C.
> 
> Strange assumption.
> 
> 'in-the-face-of-ambiguity'-well-you-know-the-rest-ly y'rs, Anders

If this is a criticism of the distutils' design choice, I
want to express my disagreement with it.  The distutils
default to the same compiler that is used to build the
standard Python distribution on a Windows platform: this
seems to me to be exactly the right default.

Calling it an "assumption" may be misleading.  But call it
a "default" and it makes more sense, no?-)


Alex