On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Éric Araujo <[email protected]> wrote: >> The static linking is almost always a bad idea, and mostly because of >> distutils warts. > > Even if you’re happily working on another tool, it would be very > appreciated if you could list those distutils issues in an email or > better on bugs.python.org.
this is not a bug, but an architectural reason, because distutils makes it impossible to use external build tools reliably. Reimplementing this in distutils (or any other tool) does not make any sense, waf for example does it perfectly (http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/Uselib). David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
