On 18 March 2015 at 16:02, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <[email protected]> wrote: > one certainly doesn't need to shoehorn a full blown build system into > setup.py - there's make, invoke, shell scripts and plenty of other systems > that can do that just fine.
Just to insert a little history here, before distutils (setup.py) was invented, Python packages used all sorts of tools to build. Often shell scripts and/or make were used, which in essence meant that the packages were unusable on Windows - even if there was no need for them to be. Distutils may be bad, but it's still far better than what it replaced :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
