On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:18 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: ... >> I guess something similar could be useful for Python, maybe this is >> what distutils actually do ? > > distutils does roughly everything that autotools does, and more: > - configuration: not often used in extensions, we (numpy) are the > exception I would guess > - build > - installation > - tarball generation > - bdist_ installers (msi, .exe on windows, .pkg/.mpkg on mac os x, > rpm/deb on Linux)
I think cmake can do all of the above (cpack supports creating packages). > - registration to pypi No idea what this is . Alex _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
