Hello,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, after taking a look at file modules_list, would it be so bad if
> we were just adding at the end of the definition of this huge list :
>
> if ( the correct library is installed ):
>    ext_modules.append( whatever you want)
>
> The problem just comes from the fact that this file is a very long
> list, and that we can not have conditions inside of this list, but
> that's all we need, isn't it ?

Allowing optional extension modules that will fail gracefully has been
merged in distutils in Python 2.7.  The patch looks pretty
straightforward to backport.  The issue and changesets can be found at
http://bugs.python.org/issue5583

--Mike

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