Folks: Thank you for the various Python packaging tools!
I just published a new version of a Free Software package: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zfec And I tested it with "easy_install zfec" on Windows XP, and I was disappointed to see this error message: """ error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with version 7.1 of Visual Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed. """ If I download the zfec source tarball and execute """ ./setup.py install """ Then I get the same error message, but if I execute """ ./setup.py build -c mingw32 install """ Then it successfully builds and installs. (This is on Python 2.4 -- I believe that in Python 2.5 that error message has been updated to mention that mingw is an option.) So my first question is: how can I configure the zfec source package so that someone who has mingw installed and who runs "easy_install zfec" successfully builds it? A deeper question is: wouldn't it be nice if "./setup.py install" automatically used the "build -c mingw32" feature when necessary? Would anyone be interested in extending distutils to do that? Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
