New submission from Philip Jenvey <pjen...@users.sourceforge.net>: Python 2.6's new msvc9compiler misbehaves when it can't find a compiler (actually a utility of the missing compiler) in its query_vcvarsall() -- it raises an IOError instead of a typical distutils error
build tools expect a consistent set of potential exceptions from the compiler suites, such as CCompilerError, DistutilsExecError, DistutilsPlatformError, etc. Distributions like simplejson, Genshi, etc. look for these errors when compiling their optional C extension speedups as an indication that there's no compiler, and to fallback to their pure python counterparts An IOError in this case just doesn't make sense This patch changes them to DistutilsExecErrors. Maybe it should be DistutilsPlatformError -- whatever, just not IOError I think this should be included in 2.6.2 ---------- components: Distutils files: msvc9_ioerror.diff keywords: patch messages: 78070 nosy: pjenvey severity: normal status: open title: [PATCH] msvc9compiler raises IOError when no compiler found instead of DistutilsError type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12404/msvc9_ioerror.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4702> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
