New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zo...@zooko.com>: I was trying to install Twisted on my son's OLPC. Twisted comes with a handful of C extensions which are all optional and most of which are not expected to compile on this platform anyway (they are platform-specific for Mac or Windows). If my son's OLPC had a C compiler installed, then it would attempt to build those modules, fail, and proceed to install Twisted. However, since it doesn't have a C compiler, then instead it stops with an error.
It would be nice if Twisted could tell distutils to try to build a module, and report whether the build succeeded, but don't stop the entire setup(). http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3586 ---------- components: Distutils messages: 78106 nosy: zooko severity: normal status: open title: try to build a C module, but don't worry if it doesn't work _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4706> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
