[Python-Dev] distutils & stderr (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:33:37 -0600 

Tim> Win9X (command.com) users can't redirect stderr, and the DOS box
Tim> there has a 50-line maximum output history.  So stuff going to
Tim> stderr is often lost forever.  stdout can be redirected.  I don't
Tim> know whether disutils had that in mind, but it is "a reason" to
Tim> leave it alone.

Perhaps it would be friendlier if all distutils messages were hidden in "if verbose:" statements (many already are). PyInline could then dial down the verbosity before calling distutils.

>> I'm using PyInline to execute a little bit of C code that returns
>> some information about the system to the calling Python code.  This
>> code then sends some output to stdout.

Tim> If there's a connection between this and disutils, it's not
Tim> apparent from what you wrote.

Sorry about the missing link. PyInline uses distutils to compile the C code. How PyInline does its think doesn't really matter to me, so I'm not going to be interested in distutils' messages.

Skip