Stefan Behnel wrote: > Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 03.02.2010 13:20: > >> I think working with distutils to achieve //-build is a lost cause and a >> waste of time. One could spend man-months and still have something >> vastly inferior to scons or waf. distutils is fundamentally flawed in >> this area (such as not having a proper build object DAG). >> > > Well, I was only referring to parallel builds of extension modules. The > only missing feature I see here is that it needs to capture the C compiler > output. I doubt that it would take "man months" to add that. > > That doesn't mean I'm arguing against the superiour feature set of other > build systems. > You're right, I forgot that we were talking about the test system only (and I guess that for most other uses as well such a change would be sufficient -- indeed Sage does parallell builds using distutils).
My own Cython modules requires building and linking in Fortran code etc. with the extension module, and I guess I was blinded by my own (rather special) case. Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
