2013/3/21 Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com>: > I'd like to backport issue13150, the _sysconfigdata.py module to 2.7. My > motivation is not the improved startup time, but the ability to cross-build > extension modules using distutils/setuptools. The basic idea is to use the > python interpreter of the build machine (the machine you build on), and the > _sysconfigdata.py for the host machine (the machine you build for). This kind > of setup works fine as long as the setup.py for a third party package gets all > build related information from the sysconfig.py module, and not directly from > os > or sys (e.g. sys.platform). > > The patch for issue13150 doesn't change any API's, but only moves the > computation of the config vars from runtime to build time. I'd like to avoid > backporting this to 3.2 as well, because the cross-build support is currently > only found in 2.7, 3.3 and the trunk.
This is a fairly small non-userfacing change, so okay. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
