On Friday 14 June 2002 10:04 am, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: ... > distutils, as the name says, is a tool for distributing > source code; that doesn't have much to do with developing code > where dependency analysis is nice to have since it saves compile However, distutils is already today the handiest building environment, particularly if your extension needs to support several platforms and/or several versions of Python. > The question is whether we want distutils to be a development > tool as well, or rather stick to its main purpose: that of > simplifying distribution and installation of software (and > thanks to Greg, it's great at that !). The "problem" (:-) is that it's great at just building extensions, too. python2.1 setup.py install, python2.2 setup.py install, python2.3 setup.py install, and hey pronto, I have my extension built and installed on all Python versions I want to support, ready for testing. Hard to beat!-) Alex
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