Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Tarek, the .compiler attribute is needed by bdist_ext, so cannot just be removed or renamed to .compiler_obj. There's a lot of bdist_ext distutils code out there relying on having the .compiler object available.
A much better fix would be to map the option to a new attribute in build_ext, e.g. .compiler_name or to remove the option altogether and always inherit the setting from the global dist option --compiler. In general, when making such changes, please test these against a few well-known packages such as twisted, pycrypto or egenix-mx-base which do include C extensions. Thanks. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
