On 20 March 2014 09:54, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> extensions without using distutils. The problem of invoking the >> compiler has been solved by many build systems and is not just a >> unique and mysterious distutils feature. > > Did someone say it was? Building extensions is something distil does too, and > without using distutils or setuptools.
Right, the problem is the lack of a standard interface for how the packaging system is supposed to invoke them - that is, *implementation independent* docs of what the various setup.py commands are *supposed* to do. The packaging system shouldn't have to care *how* setup.py is implemented, but at the moment, the behaviour is underspecified to the point where it's a matter of reverse engineering distutils and/or implementing what seems necessary and waiting to see if people complain. Cheers, Nick. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
