On 29 Dez., 15:17, Mike Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Well, after taking a look at file modules_list, would it be so bad if
> > we were just adding at the end of the definition of this huge list :
>
> > if ( the correct library is installed ):
> >    ext_modules.append( whatever you want)
>
> > The problem just comes from the fact that this file is a very long
> > list, and that we can not have conditions inside of this list, but
> > that's all we need, isn't it ?
>
> Allowing optional extension modules that will fail gracefully has been
> merged in distutils in Python 2.7.  The patch looks pretty

+10  from my side for adding this feature to Sage (the "how" has yet
to be discussed, why not use vanilla Python 2.7?)

Cheers,
Georg


> straightforward to backport.  The issue and changesets can be found 
> athttp://bugs.python.org/issue5583
>
> --Mike

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