Message 394248 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

When building Python, we need two distinct "include" directories:

• source .h files
• install target for .h files

Note that this doesn't matter except when building Python from source.

Historically:

• source .h files were in the sysconfig scheme under 'include'
• the install directory was in the distutils.command.install scheme under 'headers'

GH-24549 merged these, because sysconfig is now the single source of truth and distutils is derived from it. It seems to me that we need to bring 'headers' back -- at least when building Python.