On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > 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. > > What do you think?
+1 I think we could have a global variable in sys, called "dont_compile", distutils would look at before it tris to compile stuff, exactly like how it does for pyc file (sys.dont_write_bytecode) Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ 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
