On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > 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.
I't not a global *variable*, it's a global *constant*, unlike dont_write_bytecode. > 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. We're talking here about a way how interpreter can tell distutils what it can and what it can't do. Other option would be to modify distutils shipped with other python implementations, but that's a bit against goals of having a unified stdlib. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ 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
