Re: [Distutils] waf can be used to compile Python extension modules

2014-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 20 March 2014 09:54, Vinay Sajip wrote: > Daniel Holth gmail.com> writes: > >> extensions without using distutils. The problem of invoking the >> compiler has been solved by many build systems and is not just a >> unique and mysterious distutils feature. > > Did someone say it was? Building ex

Re: [Distutils] waf can be used to compile Python extension modules

2014-03-19 Thread Vinay Sajip
Daniel Holth gmail.com> writes: > extensions without using distutils. The problem of invoking the > compiler has been solved by many build systems and is not just a > unique and mysterious distutils feature. Did someone say it was? Building extensions is something distil does too, and without u

Re: [Distutils] waf can be used to compile Python extension modules

2014-03-19 Thread anatoly techtonik
The idea is not new. Here are some examples for SCons: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2627731/using-scons-as-a-build-engine-for-distutils The answers may need to be updated, so if anybody comes up with convenient distutils tool semantics - it can be integrated into next SCons release. On Wed,

[Distutils] waf can be used to compile Python extension modules

2014-03-19 Thread Daniel Holth
One reason people use distutils is because it can compile Python extension modules. Here's an example from waf that compiles Python extensions without using distutils. The problem of invoking the compiler has been solved by many build systems and is not just a unique and mysterious distutils featur

[Distutils] [ANN]: distlib 0.1.8 released on PyPI

2014-03-19 Thread Vinay Sajip
I've released version 0.1.8 of distlib on PyPI [1]. For newcomers, distlib is a library of packaging functionality which is intended to beĀ usable as the basis for third-party packaging tools. The main changes in this release are as follows: * Fixed issue #45: Improved thread-safety in SimpleScrap