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[Python-Dev] addressing distutils inability to track file dependencies

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>     Guido> Sorry Skip, but many others pointed out early on in this
>     Guido> discussion that dependency discovery is the important issue.
> 
> Which distutils doesn't do, but for which make and/or compilers have
> done for years.

That same imprecise language again that got you in trouble before! :-)

Make doesn't do dependency discovery (beyond the trivial .c -> .o).
There may be a few compilers that do this but I don't think it's the
norm.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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