On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:10:48 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > The only way I can think to make this work is to actually > generate a setup.py
That's right... > (or in the other direction, to generate a setup.info > from setup.py). Yes, that will be required also.. > I think it is much better long-term solution for a > 'distutils v2' ... My proposal is to build the installation section of 'distutils v2' into a setup.py. And share it around. > than trying to fix the existing code, but it is > certainly a lot of work, What's a few thousand lines of code between friends.. But don't forget it's the one chance that we get to build a whole new system with completely fresh code. After so many years of the old code.. I think we need a chance to get some new code.. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig