Artem Egorkine wrote:
> A number of people have reported that they have had problems building
> the bindings. I have two ideas to bounce around:
> 
> 1. Would it make sense to distribute SWIG-generated pyfprint_swig.c
> together with the sources? This way, we get rid of a build-time
> dependency on SWIG. The configure process can still check for SWIG
> and, if found, force regeneration of pyfprint_swig.c...

That sounds like a good idea, at least to ship pyfprint_swig.c in the
tarballs. I'm not so sure about checking it in to the repo. Let's see
what Daniel says.

> 2. Would it make sense to use setup_tools to build the extension with
> 'python setup.py build_ext --inplace' like the SWIG documentation
> strongly recommends?

If someone does it, sure. I had enough trouble just to get Autotools
working. I have never used setup_tools.

/Lukas

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