[Distutils] Optional C extensions and setuptools

[Christopher Armstrong]

On 3/18/07, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> I've just added a small optional C extension to simplejson to speed up
> decoding, but I have a feeling that it's going to cause problems for
> Windows users.
>
> Right now it's specified as setuptools Feature the same way that
> PyProtocols' speedups module is implemented.
>
> Is there something I can do in the setup.py to fail gracefully and
> install anyways if it can't compile the extension? In some way that's
> compatible with easy_install?

Twisted does this: it subclasses build_ext and overrides
build_extensions to check if there's a C compiler before upcalling.


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