Zooko O'Whielacronx <zo...@zooko.com> added the comment: Tarek:
Yes, failure to build an extension module for any reason should definitely cause "build" to fail by default. However, many Python packages seem to come with optional extension modules, typically for a performance speed-up. simplejson, zope.interface, and twisted all do this (these are three packages that allmydata-tahoe depends on). My own pyutil package used to do this, but I eventually just removed the optional C extension module in order to avoid this problem. So, for those it would be good if the package setup.py could specify that an extension module is optional and that failure to build it for any reason does not mean failure of the "build". Note that twisted's setup.py already attempts to do this for certain of its extension modules, and if I understand correctly it is able to detect and handle failure to build if gcc fails, but not if gcc is absent. _______________________________________ 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
