On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Christian Heimes wrote: >> >> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4359 reminds me that Distutils reads build >>> files like Makefile or pyconfig.h to get some environment >>> variables through the sysconfig module at *runtime*. >>> >>> This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped >>> with python but python-devel. (like Fedora) >> >> Do we really want to change distutils to solve a problem of a third >> party packaging system when the problem was created by the very same >> third party in the first place? In other words: Should you spend your >> precious development time with fixing a problem that isn't our fault? >> The decision to split the header files into a separate package, that >> isn't installed by default, has already created tons of bad user >> experience in the past. Do you want to endorse the split even further? >> >> -0 from me > > If the third party disables distutils by removing some of the things it > (sometimes) needs, then it seems to me that they should also remove disutils > into the separate package. If *that* creates a problem, that should be > *their* problem.
Ok. Fair enough, I'll work with them this way. 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
