Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I discussed with Martin a bit about the opportunity of generating .vcproj >> files with a script-driven tool. I'm going to try and setup something as >> soon as I find some spare time. > > Ideally this would be integrated with distutils because the setup-script > has most of the information that's needed. > > OTOH, extensions could be built with distutils even for core Python, and > even on Windows. For extensions that are *not* builtin or not included with > Python itself distutils works good enough.
I fear this is an orthogonal change. Alas, using distutils to build core extensions is not something I'm ready to tackle at the moment. I was just thiking of something much more naive like using a free tool to build .vcproj/.sln (see www.cmake.org for instance) from a script description. With such a tool, it would be very easy to build a .pyd file around a self-contained .c file (like _heapqmodule.c, etc.), it would mostly be a couple of line changes in the script file, and then re-run the tool executable to regenerate vcproj/sln. OTOH, both the tool executable (cmake.exe in this example) and the current version of the generated vcproj/sln files would be committed in SVN under PCbuild, so to have a minimal impact on developer habits. -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
