On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:32:25 -0400, "P.J. Eby" <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can get setuptools to build *and* install them for you, > actually. It's just not documented, since the feature is not > well-supported on all platforms. (Windows is actually about the only > platform it works properly on out of the box!)
Well it's never a good idea for programmers to rely on undocumented features. Maybe somebody can think about adding it to the appropriate tracker but as far as I'm concerned if it isn't documented then it doesn't exist and therefore shouldn't be used. Surely we can't expect users to follow and know about undocumented features.. because in that case then we are explicitly instructing them that the use of any undocumented feature or bug is wholy acceptable. That flies against most existing software paradigms. David btw - I appreciate the information - and hope you update the documentation or at least make a note to do so. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
