Tarek Ziadé wrote: > 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"
Wouldn't it be cleaner to place the extracted information into a new module _sysconfig_settings.py which gets created by the configure script or the Makefile later during the build ? This new module could then be imported into sysconfig.py at run-time. BTW: There's already a Tools/scripts/h2py.py we could use for converting pyconfig.h into a Python file. For the Makefile we could use the distutils Makefile parser to add the extra values. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 19 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
