[Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement (original) (raw)

Alexander Neundorf alex.neundorf at kitware.com
Wed Apr 8 21:45:18 CEST 2009


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:18 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote: ...

I guess something similar could be useful for Python, maybe this is what distutils actually do ? distutils does roughly everything that autotools does, and more: - configuration: not often used in extensions, we (numpy) are the exception I would guess - build - installation - tarball generation - bdist installers (msi, .exe on windows, .pkg/.mpkg on mac os x, rpm/deb on Linux)

I think cmake can do all of the above (cpack supports creating packages).

- registration to pypi

No idea what this is .

Alex



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