[Python-Dev] HP-UX clean-up (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Jan 7 17:53:54 EST 2004 

Zack> I'm piggybacking on this thread to point out that there are some
Zack> pretty drastic simplifications possible in configure.in.

To paraphrase Tim, Guido, MvL and many others: "Patches are welcome". You knew that would be the canned reply, right?

The Python configure script has been around for a long time. I suspect much of the cruft that's there is simply because it hasn't kept up with newer versions of autoconf. The sizeof check for the char type probably predates the decision to require an ANSI C compiler. I can probably elide that without breaking too much.

Zack> Another cleanup that would be nice is to get rid of Modules/Setup
Zack> and related; as I understand it, this is only around because the
Zack> top level setup.py hasn't been finished yet.  (And for a pipe
Zack> dream, could we have a way to set the disabled_module_list from
Zack> the configure command line?)

Nothing's really ever finished, least of all distutils... I believe Modules/Setup is still the best (only?) way to create a statically linked interpreter (all extension modules builtin) or add your own extension modules without fiddling setup.py.

Skip

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