Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: I can see two cases here:
1/ a compiler is not found, and build_ext can't proceed 2/ a compiler is found but it fails For 2/, I don't think it's wise to fail silently if a compiler is found and the build fails, because that can hide an unexpected problem. For 1/ I would go for a binary distribution, or for a source distribution that is specific to Linux in your case, if the extensions are specific to other platforms. The latter could be done in the same setup.py if needed by declaring the extensions only on matching platforms. But I can see the benefit of a source distribution with optional extensions in general. In that case, I think this option would have to be declared optionally for each extension to be able to fail properly if one extension is mandatory. ---------- nosy: +tarek priority: -> normal type: -> feature request versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ 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
