2009/11/15 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>:
>> The problem is that the main python distribution ("python") is not
>> working as advertised since
>> it contains distutils, which requires "python-devel" to work.
>>
>> This implies that "python" has a dependency on "python-devel", which
>> does not make sense
>> anymore for linux distros to have two distinct packages for Python.
>>
>> Having some of the makefile vars stored in stdlib solve this problem.
>
> I don't see how this can solve the problem. Distutils contains the
> build_ext command, which definitely will require the devel package.Sure that's the edge case where files like Python.h is required for compiling C extensions. And compiler errors can make it pretty clear at this level, that the devel package is required. Not because of the need to read a Makefile, but to get the header files to compile. And it should be possible to compile extensions that don't require python-devel at all, when these extensions are not CPython extensions. Last, commands like "install" also requires using sysconfig, (thus reading Makefile) to get some values. I can change this for "install" it's not hard, but we would still provide some public APIs that are reading Makefile from within the stlib. right now, importing "disutils.sysconfig" triggers this behavior. That makes several use case of requiring python-devel just to read a few values that could be injected in the stdlib at build time. Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ 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
