Armin Rigo schrieb: > Ah, distutils are distributed in the base package now, but not the > 'config' subdirectory of a standard library's normal installation, which > makes distutils a bit useless. > > I should go and file a bug, I guess. The reason why I did not do it so > far, is that the fact that no one did tends to show that they really > think distributing 'config' is not the "right" thing to do. A reasoning > along the lines of: "this subdir contains include files, so it should go > in the python-dev package". I'm not too interested in fighting this > kind of preconception.
It really depends on what you are trying to do with distutils. If you want to package or install a distutils module, you need much more than distutils: you may also need a compiler, you may need the complete set of Python header files, and you may need header files for the libraries your package depends on. So if you use distutils to install a package, it's IMO reasonable to require that the -dev package is installed. People use distutils for other purposes today as well, and these purposes might be supported now. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
