Phillip J. Eby schrieb: > At 11:50 PM 3/12/2007 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>Does distutils support this kind of setup? Modules/Setup? > > distutils does, and has from its inception, as far as I know. > > >>IOW, I would expect that there are sooo many places where extension >>modules in packages are not supported > > The only thing I know of that doesn't support it very well is py2exe, > actually. PEAK has had extensions modules in subpackages for many years > now, and never run into any problems. In fact, py2exe's only problem with > it is that it still requires such modules to have globally unique names -- > you can't have both a foo.speedups extension and a bar.speedups > extension. (This actually happened with RuleDispatch and PyProtocols; I > ended up renaming them to _p_speedups and _d_speedups to better support > py2exe users.) >
It is kind of funny that I contributed a patch to the McMillan installer to support extension modules in packages years ago, but never bothered to implement that in py2exe. If anyone contributes a patch for py2exe, I can integrate it... Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
