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

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Wed Jan 7 18:09:57 EST 2004

From skip at mojam.com Wed Jan 07 17:54:01 2004 Envelope-to: claird at phaseit.net From: Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> . . . 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 disabledmodulelist 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

I'm the kind of developer who thinks it very desirable to embed in configure.in such lines as

January 2004: Skip Montanaro explains that he

"believe[s] Modules/Setup is still the best ...

...

In the absence of objections, I'm likely to start submitting patches to the effect later this month.

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