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Wed Jan 7 17:53:54 EST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041791.html

    Zack> I'm piggybacking on this thread to point out that there are some
    Zack> pretty drastic simplifications possible in configure.in.  

To paraphrase Tim, Guido, MvL and many others: "Patches are welcome".  You
knew that would be the canned reply, right?  <wink>

The Python configure script has been around for a long time.  I suspect much
of the cruft that's there is simply because it hasn't kept up with newer
versions of autoconf.  The sizeof check for the char type probably predates
the decision to require an ANSI C compiler.  I can probably elide that
without breaking too much.

    Zack> Another cleanup that would be nice is to get rid of Modules/Setup
    Zack> and related; as I understand it, this is only around because the
    Zack> top level setup.py hasn't been finished yet.  (And for a pipe
    Zack> dream, could we have a way to set the disabled_module_list from
    Zack> the configure command line?)

Nothing's really ever finished, least of all distutils...  I believe
Modules/Setup is still the best (only?) way to create a statically linked
interpreter (all extension modules builtin) or add your own extension
modules without fiddling setup.py.

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