On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Jari Pennanen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have old/new problem, once mentioned in 2004 at this same mailing > list ( http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2004-March/003807.html > ) but surely that implementation is bad... But the problem persists, I > use SWIG and had to Google all over to only find out build order > cannot be changed. > > Someone should implement build_order keyword argument to setup, e.g.: > > setup(..., build_order=['build_ext', 'build_py']) > > If some orders are missing, like in above example: build_clib, > build_scripts, they would be appended as last. Anyways, the point is > make the build order customizable through setup keyword.
This would need to be tested/confirmed on real packages, but I am afraid it would break a lot of packages, especially the ones extending distutils. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
