mike bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> added the comment: > I think it's fair to ask the user to setup the environment correctly before running "python setup.py install"
We're supporting automatic fallback to non-C install for those environments that don't support it. We're just looking for a predictable CCompilerError to be raised for conditions like this rather than a ValueError where we have to parse the string message. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7511> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com