>> I wonder if it would be better to have distutils generate the
>> appropriate type of makefile and execute that instead...
Guido> But that doesn't work for platforms that don't have a Make. And
Guido> while Windows has one, its file format is completely different,
Guido> so you'd have to teach distutils how to write each platform's
Guido> Makefile format.
I don't see that writing different makefile formats is any harder than
writing different shell commands. On those systems where you don't have a
make-like tool, either distutils already writes compile and link commands or
it doesn't work at all. On those systems where you do have a make-like
facility, I see no reason to not use it. You will get more reliable
dependency checking for one thing.
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