[Pythonmac-SIG] DistUtils

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Rob Managan <managan@llnl.gov> said:
> If anyone is looking for a project to fill their spare time you might 
> consider porting the distutils project to the Mac. It is a python 
> utility to uniformly install packages and modules. Now that 
> CodeWarrior has an XML based project file we should actually be able 
> to implement this!

Wow, I hadn't noticed the xml import/export yet!

Another project I'd like done, probably smaller than porting
distutils: a utility that generates the .prj file if you create a new
extension module. Currently you have to take xxmodule.prj, and replace 
the name "xx" by your module name in about 6 places (2 target names, 2 
resulting slb names, the source filename, the .exp filename, the
initxx name in the .exp file, I think that's the lot), and this is too 
easy to get wrong. A simple script that asks for a module name and
does this for you would be really handy.
--
Jack Jansen             | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++
www.oratrix.nl/~jack    | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm