On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:36 PM, A. Cavallo <a.cava...@cavallinux.eu> wrote: > Hi, > I'm playing lately with distutils (on the 2.7a branch). > > This "sudden" interest has been triggered by the python bugs: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue5941 > http://bugs.python.org/issue5940 > > What I've found (IMHO) is the lack of proper logging while stepping through > all the loops inside the code. > > In fact distutils.log (the log module used internally) It is loosely written > resembling the logging python module but missing the full elegance in the > api: is there any reason it could not be made very similar to it? >
In fact the goal is to replace it with logging calls. It was created with this in mind > I think this is one of the reason is not more deeply spread into the distutils > package (a useful tool in diagnostic, IMHO). > > Because I'm out of work at the moment (It might not last forever tough) I can > do it if there is any interest and send a patch set to be reviewed. Sure that would be awesome ! We started this work a while ago, http://bugs.python.org/issue3992 you might want to check the latest patch and take it from here, the I can review it and commit it Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
