David Lyon wrote: > > Not true... > > Don't forget, cygwin runs under windows
And how does that help to build a linux binary ? > , and wine runs under linux > Yes, but Visual Studio does not. So you are out of luck if you need full compatibility with pre-built python binaries on python.org. It works almost ok with mingw, but not always - and it is far from working well on windows 64 bits BTW. Anyway, as long as distutils works under windows, distutils will work under wine - the problem is the toolchain, not distutils. > Cross compiling has been common practice for the last 30 years. > And still hard to get right. That should certainly not be built in distutils - a sane build tool needs very little knowledge about cross compilation, really. Python itself cannot be cross-compiled out of the box anyway. > At a minimum, distutils should be able to create an .egg that will > work on every system. > Before implementing things that no other system has ever done, we should focus on basic things that distutils cannot do today and are expected from a build/distribution tool. Those are hard problems to get right, saying that it is not hard because it is just moving files and scripts does not really help. That's like saying programming is easy because it is just inputting characters in a text file. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
