At 12:58 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > A lot of setuptools warts are driven by related design problems in the > distutils, such as the choice to use imperative / procedural code for > everything
If a distutils replacement is ever written, I'd like to see it structured as a dependency graph, like a makefile, with each node in the graph knowing how to transform its inputs into its outputs. That would make it a lot easier to extend to accommodate new things like Pyrex. You'd just have to write a new node class that knows how to turn .pyx files into .c files, and the existing machinery would take it from there. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
