[Distutils] Random bits

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Michael Hudson wrote:
>...
> class Acceptor:
>     def __and__(self,rhs):
>         return AndingAcceptor(self,rhs)
>     def __or__(self,rhs):
>         return OringAcceptor(self,rhs)
>     def __neg__(self):
>         return NotAcceptor(self)

Sorry... but this is just silly. This is taking a simple problem of file
selection and throwing a mess of procedural code at the thing. How is this
*any* better than a simple list of files or file patterns?

The distutils package must be *very* simple to gain acceptance. Requiring
people to write code, understand how to subclass CCompiler, or provide a
bazillion params to a setup() function is just not going to help.

The developer ought to be able to say "ship *.py and foomodule.c".
distutils would package that into a target directory and see that
foomodule.c is compiled to a module on the target system. Done.

Grain of salt time: until I step up and provide code to make distutils as
simple as I hope it would be, my comments should be viewed as "peanut
gallery" comments.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/