On Jan 26, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote: > Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >>> Hopefully setuptools can manage this better. >> >> >> Probably not, as I'm not rewriting build_ext, just wrapping it. > > Is this wrapping transparent ? Or do you present your own command > interfaces, for which the current implementation is simply distutils' > commands ? > One of the weak aspects of distutils (IMO) is its lack of > extensibility. > There is just no way to plug my own 'Extension' in (with all its build > infrastructure), for example. > This is definitely a lesson to be learned.
While I don't agree with a lot of the design decisions in distutils, it's plenty extensible. You can plug your own Extension in, just subclass it. -bob _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
