Message 132544 - Python tracker

Message132544

Author	barry
Recipients	Arfrever, akitada, andybuckley, barry, belopolsky, christian.heimes, doko, eric.araujo, ivazquez, jafo, jcea, lemburg, matejcik, pitrou, tarek
Date	2011-03-29.22:15:07
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On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >no, it looks for headers and libraries in more directories. But really, this >whole testing for paths is wrong. Just use the compiler to search for headers >and libraries, no need to check these on your own. You're probably right about that, but reimplementing Python's build system is out of scope for right now. ;) For one thing, doing so wouldn't allow me to backport to older Pythons, which I really want to do.

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On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>no, it looks for headers and libraries in more directories.  But really, this
>whole testing for paths is wrong. Just use the compiler to search for headers
>and libraries, no need to check these on your own.

You're probably right about that, but reimplementing Python's build system is
out of scope for right now. ;)  For one thing, doing so wouldn't allow me to
backport to older Pythons, which I really want to do.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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