On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Louis Pecora wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> >> On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Louis Pecora wrote: >> >>> I will be honest and admit I do not grok disutils. I sense power >>> there, >>> but have not had the guts nor time to explore it. If you have a >>> simple >>> example that is easy to send, please do. Since I will probably be >>> doing >>> more and more with Python, I am trying to expose myself to useful >>> branches of the Python world without becoming overwhelmed. >> >> >> You need to understand distutils, or your experience developing >> Python extensions will be extremely painful. distutils is not at all >> difficult. The documentation is pretty good, and you can always look >> at the thousands of setup.py files out there written by other Python >> developers. Pick a project similar to yours and use its setup.py as >> a template. >> >> Or, you can do everything manually and live a painful existence... >> especially because the correct linker flags and compiler options are >> a mile long on Mac OS X and totally different than those from any >> other platform. >> >> -bob > > Bob or anyone, > > I have started to look over distutils, but a question immediately > comes > to mind. With the idea of trying to avoid learning what I don't > need, > I gotta ask: > > Is distutils more for distributing packages/modules than developing?
No, it solves both problems. One of these two will become very familiar to you: (distutils) python setup.py build_ext -i (if using setuptools) python setup.py develop -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
