On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé 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)
Every time somebody says "let's have a global variable", God kills a kitten. If it's in sys, He bludgeons the kitten to death *with another kitten*. sys.dont_write_bytecode really ought to have been an API of an importer object somewhere; hopefully, when Brett has the time to finish the refactoring which he alluded to at the language summit, it will be. Similarly, functionally speaking this API is a good idea, but running the C compiler is distutils' job. Therefore any API which describes this functionality should be close to distutils itself. _______________________________________________ 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
