On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I would like to have a feature on platform module (or sys or
> somewhere) that can tell distutils or distutils2 that this platform
> (be it PyPy or Jython) is not able to compile any C module. The
> purpose of this is to make distutils bail out in more reasonable
> manner than a compilation error in case this module is not going to
> work on anything but CPython.
>

Also, it would be nice if the package could tell distutils that the
compilation is option, in order to support modules where the C version
simply replaces functions for speed.
--
Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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