On 17 July 2013 00:56, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > 5. Support cross-compilation of extensions by default. > > > TBH I don't know how much of this has anything to do with pip? As far as > compiling goes all pip does is call setup.py install so people are > compiling with either setuptools or distutils. >
Nothing at all. Cross-compilation is not handled by pip, nor is it relevant to the discussions about bundling pip with Python. The much longer-term goal of the packaging discussions around decoupling "builders" and "installers" might allow for the development of better 3rd party build tools with cross-compilation support (things in the space that tools like bento occupy) but it will never be something that pip needs to concern itself with. I doubt that the standard library (i.e. distutils or any successor) will be involved in this either - it's specialised enough that 3rd party tools are the correct way to handle it. Paul
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