[Python-ideas] Add Clang to distutils

[Brian Curtin]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On 25/08/13 07:54, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>> Well, the name is pretty self-explanatory. I'm working on a patch right
>> now. It my tests(I went through the file and replaced all occurrences of
>> 'gcc' with 'clang'), everything compiled fine. I can't see an reason why
>> it'd hurt something.
>
>
> Are you suggesting that the maintainer of distutils should take over
> maintenance of clang, in order to make clang a part of distutils? Do the
> current maintainers of clang get a say in this?
>
> If that's not what you mean, perhaps what you mean isn't quite so
> self-explanatory as you think. In what sense should clang be added to
> distutils? gcc isn't currently part of distutils. It's an external
> dependency, not an internal component.

The person is talking about the strings "gcc" and "clang"...