> 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 !). Yes. Much of distutils is concerned with compiling, and that part is also needed by a development tool. So I'd say it's a pretty good match. You have to specify the extension build rules as some kind of script. We found Modules/Setup + makesetup inadequate, and moved to setup.py + distutils. Distutils is the best we got; it knows about many compilers and platforms; it was pretty easy to add .h file dependency handling (though not discovery). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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