On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote: [..] > I've brought the issue of Makefile and pyconfig.h being needed for distutils > to the attention of every new Fedora python maintainer since the package > split was made. The current maintainer, David Malcolm, agrees that > distutils.sysconfig needs to be able to use this data and he has moved the > Makefile and header files into the main python package. This doesn't change > the problems with using a Makefile and C header files as a data format for > python.
Great News ! Now for the format problem, I agree that it seems more robust to pre-process the variables and inject them in the stdlib when ./configure is run. I am not sure what is the best strategy here, but I would rather not add yet another configuration file (wether its an xml format or an ini-like format). So what I am proposing is to inject those values in a private dict in the new sysconfig.py module, that can be read through the get_config_vars / get_config_var APIs. This means that sysconfig.py will be added as "sysconfig.py.in" 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
