[Python-Dev] Platform extension for distutils on other interpreters than CPython (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 21:15:22 CET 2010

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote: Hello.

I would like to have a feature on platform module (or sys or somewhere) that can tell distutils or distutils2 that this platform (be it PyPy or Jython) is not able to compile any C module. The purpose of this is to make distutils bail out in more reasonable manner than a compilation error in case this module is not going to work on anything but CPython. What do you think? +1 I think we could have a global variable in sys, called "dontcompile", distutils would look at before it tris to compile stuff, exactly like how it does for pyc file (sys.dontwritebytecode) Every time somebody says "let's have a global variable", God kills a kitten.

I't not a global variable, it's a global constant, unlike dont_write_bytecode.

Similarly, functionally speaking this API is a good idea, but running the C compiler is distutils' job.   Therefore any API which describes this functionality should be close to distutils itself.

We're talking here about a way how interpreter can tell distutils what it can and what it can't do. Other option would be to modify distutils shipped with other python implementations, but that's a bit against goals of having a unified stdlib.

Cheers, fijal

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