-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > [..] >> 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? > > I didn't know the split story went like this. I took it like the > "natural" split everyone > agreed on, and I saw this distutils <-> Makefile link like something to fix. > > So, it sounds like a bad idea now :)
Parsing the Makefile at runtime seems like an insane choice anyway to me: +1 for your new module having constants generated at ./configure time. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksA1LEACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5gCQCgtYpBewlnocHJf5hp33TfkLjG 72IAnRW1d9n2CO8S2V+9ewcMb81oWNL+ =GG45 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
