[Python-Dev] setup.py deleting files (Was: SSL support in _socket) (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
01 Mar 2002 13:02:56 +0000

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

>>>>> "MvL" == Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

MvL> I now recall why setup.py deletes modules that cannot be MvL> imported: If they would be left there, the test cases would MvL> fail with the ImportError. People had been complaining that MvL> they get testsuite failures, so we changed setup.py to remove MvL> the modules which clearly don't work. Can we just rename them? I.e. bsddbmodule-failed.so

So long as it's bsddbmodule_failed.so, +1.

It shouldn't be difficult.

Cheers, M.

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