Harry George wrote: > We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order, > and expect the next package to find them. "configure" does this for > hundreds of packages. cmake, scons, and others also tackle this > problem. Python's old setup.py seems to be able to do it.
No, generic setup.py scripts don't do anything of that kind. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list