Re: [Python-Dev] First draft of "sysconfig"

2009-12-16 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:18:00 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: > > .. because all these things are already > > needed and already being done to some degree in some > > organisations. There's already the libraries on pypi for > > most of this anyway. > > ... > There clearly is no interest in

Re: [Python-Dev] First draft of "sysconfig"

2009-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Lyon writes: > I'm not star-gazing, because all these things are already > needed and already being done to some degree in some > organisations. There's already the libraries on pypi for > most of this anyway. Sure. But in a volunteer project, it's beg, buy, or build. Begging has not

Re: [Python-Dev] First draft of "sysconfig"

2009-12-16 Thread David Lyon
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:21:01 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > .. we mostly leave that to the py2exe/py2app + native installer > developers of the world. There are a *lot* of thorny issues in getting > installers fully in accordance with OS developer guidelines, which is > why we tend to shy away from

Re: [Python-Dev] First draft of "sysconfig"

2009-12-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
David Lyon wrote: > I was thinking that perphaps sysconfig could help me get my > helloworld.py application into a \Program Files\hello world > directory and everything would be rosy. > > But not yet. So I will wait. No, we mostly leave that to the py2exe/py2app + native installer developers of t