It must, or it couldn’t have a build time dependency on distutils :)
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From: Donald Stufft
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 18:15
To: xoviat
Cc: Steve Dower; DistUtils mailing list
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Extracting distutils into setuptools
I think that the CPy
I think that the CPython builds a python executable, then uses that built
executable to finish the installation.
> On Sep 30, 2017, at 9:11 PM, xoviat wrote:
>
> It would be nice to know whether this information is correct, or whether I
> hold an invalid belief.
>
> 2017-09-30 20:09 GMT-05:00
It would be nice to know whether this information is correct, or whether I
hold an invalid belief.
2017-09-30 20:09 GMT-05:00 xoviat :
> I have personally not built Python myself (though I've built many an
> extension), but what I can say is that I got the idea from Larry Hastings.
> According to
I have personally not built Python myself (though I've built many an
extension), but what I can say is that I got the idea from Larry Hastings.
According to him (this if for the Gilectomy fork):
"Second, as you hack on the Gilectomy you may break your "python"
executable rather badly. This is of c
> On Sep 30, 2017, at 3:52 PM, xoviat wrote:
>
> I don't think CPython needs to bundle all of its build-time dependencies.
> That principle doesn't really apply to other Python programs nor most other
> programs in general. AFAIK, CPython already has a build-time dependency on
> another, ext
I don't know whether this will convince anyone otherwise, but at least from
my perspective, a build-time dependency is different than a run-time
dependency. Assuming that other parts of CPython don't have a run-time
dependency on distutils, I don't think CPython needs to bundle all of its
build-tim