On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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)
Or... wait : we already know if we are using CPython, or Jython reading sys.platform. So I could simply not trigger the compilation in case sys.platform is one of the CPythons and keep in distutils side a list of the platform names, Extension is incompatible with. That makes me wonder : why don't we have a sys.implementation variable ? (cython/jython/pypi), since we can have several values for cython in sys.platform 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
