Hi,
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but thought this question
would be relevant to Python core and extension module devs.. This the
right place?
I've been using distutils to compile C++ extensions / bindings written
with Boost.Python, and have been implementing some (often frowned-upon)
monkey-patching magic to speed up the compilation process. I was wondering
if other Python devs would appreciate the benefit from a
distutils-integrated patch of the same functionality, using less-frowned
upon programming techniques.
More specifically, I have felt it useful during development to incorporate
the following functionality into a setupext.py file:-
1. Parallel compilation, by monkey-patching
distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.compile. (A basic solution was provided on
StackOverflow[1].)
2. Create a "unity-build"[2].
3. Only re-compile objects whose source-code / included files have
changed.
I'll happily share my code (hacks), but before getting too technical with
the discussion, I was just wondering whether any of these would be
considered useful enough / easy enough to implement without breaking
backwards-compatibility, to incorporate into core distutils. Any thoughts?
Thanks for your time.
Kind regards,
Alex
[1] -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11013851/speeding-up-build-process-with-distutils
[2] -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543697/include-all-cpp-files-into-a-single-compilation-unit
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