Christian Heimes wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Hello,
http://bugs.python.org/issue4359 reminds me that Distutils reads build
files like Makefile or pyconfig.h to get some environment
variables through the sysconfig module at *runtime*.
This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped
with python but python-devel. (like Fedora)
Do we really want to change distutils to solve a problem of a third
party packaging system when the problem was created by the very same
third party in the first place? In other words: Should you spend your
precious development time with fixing a problem that isn't our fault?
The decision to split the header files into a separate package, that
isn't installed by default, has already created tons of bad user
experience in the past. Do you want to endorse the split even further?
-0 from me
If the third party disables distutils by removing some of the things it
(sometimes) needs, then it seems to me that they should also remove
disutils into the separate package. If *that* creates a problem, that
should be *their* problem.
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