Message 373631 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

+1

I would like to propose three changes:

1. rename distutils, either _distutils or _buildutils sounds good to me
2. make distutils a build-only dependency and no longer install it with make install and other install targets
3. start to build extensions from Makefile or Modules/Setup

For (3) we have to move some checks into autoconf and maybe extend Modules/Setup to support conditional compilation.