[Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Nov 19 11:04:03 CET 2009

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek gmail.com> writes:

So what I am proposing is to inject those values in a private dict in the new sysconfig.py module, that can be read through the getconfigvars / getconfigvar APIs. This means that sysconfig.py will be added as "sysconfig.py.in"

This means you have to relaunch the whole configure thing each time you make a change to sysconfig? This doesn't sound like a good idea to me. You could make the private dict a dedicated module instead, e.g. "_sysconfig_data.py.in".

As for Windows, if people have the ability to choose the installation directory when installing, I'm not sure how you're gonna handle it.

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