Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> Tarek, the .compiler attribute is needed by bdist_ext, so cannot just be
> removed or renamed to .compiler_obj. There's a lot of bdist_ext
> distutils code out there relying on having the .compiler object available.

Sorry, the above should have read build_ext, not bdist_ext...

> A much better fix would be to map the option to a new attribute in
> build_ext, e.g. .compiler_name or to remove the option altogether and
> always inherit the setting from the global dist option --compiler.

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