Re: [Python-Dev] distutils 'depends' management

2012-02-06 Thread Matteo Bertini
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: > Hi Matteo, > > Now setup.py will rebuild all every time, this is because the policy of >> newer_group in build_extension is to consider 'newer' any missing file. >> > > Here you certainly mean “older”. > No, and this is the problem: newer_g

Re: [Python-Dev] distutils 'depends' management

2012-02-03 Thread Éric Araujo
Hi Matteo, Now setup.py will rebuild all every time, this is because the policy of newer_group in build_extension is to consider 'newer' any missing file. Here you certainly mean “older”. [...] Can someone suggest me the reason of this choice distutils’ notion of dependencies directly comes