On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:52 AM, David Lyon wrote:
Anyway, as long as distutils works under windows, distutils will work
under wine - the problem is the toolchain, not distutils.
Yes. That's correct.
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 -
Well distutils already has partial support for it.
And the alternative being disccused here is removing the platform
specific code.
quoting
http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html#cross-compiling-on-windows
"A built distribution is how you make life as easy as possible for
installers of your module distribution: for users of RPM-based Linux
systems, it’s a binary RPM; for Windows users, it’s an executable
installer; for Debian-based Linux users, it’s a Debian package; and so
forth. Obviously, no one person will be able to create built
distributions
for every platform under the sun, so the Distutils are designed to
enable
module developers to concentrate on their specialty—writing code and
creating source distributions"
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.
I'm just reading the distutils documentation.....
The documentation is setting an expectation...
Yes - you can be expected to work towards the goals that are
documented
within your project.
Change the documentation and don't promise it if it is not going to
be delivered.....
The point is, getting past the trivial stuff, building packages for
different systems is hard, maintaining the code to build packages to
other systems is way way harder.
For example, Tarek may be using OS/2 warp (Its just an example people)
and for him to maintain the rpm/deb/mpkg/win32_inst stuff is actually
impossible, so he wants that people on those platforms to take
responsability for a little part of distutils so when rpm-ng 6.0 comes
either red hat people would say that building python package is not
supported or they are going to update the rpm code which is external
to disutils.
The point is not exactly cross compilation, but cross maintaining of
distribution specific code. The only way this actually works now, I
would guess, is because rpm format hasn't changed much, and win32_inst
has a huge user base.
--
Leonardo Santagada
santagada at gmail.com
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