Re: [Visualpython-users] distutils

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

There's quite a large number of detailed issues. To give a simple example, a
machine (my Mac OSX 10.2 is an example) may not have gtk-config to be driven
to identify the gtk library environment. And gtk-config only applies to GTK
1, not GTK 2. Etc. As Jonathan Brandmeyer has pointed out to me, distutils
doesn't address a large number of the configuration/environment issues that
are handled by the autoconfig machinery used for example in the compilation
of Python itself from source. Sometime last year I complimented Guido on the
fact that the source compilation of Python worked flawlessly on many
different Unix-like platforms, and he said that there had been a huge amount
of work on the autoconfig aspects over a couple of years to reach this point
of universality.

So while distutils may have some uses with respect to VPython (including as
Arthur has shown a nice way to produce an executable installer on Windows),
it does seem alas that eventually we'll have to bite the bullet of learning
to use autoconfig to address the many nagging problems that people have
experienced on diverse Linux/Unix platforms.

The problems will be eased by Jonathan's intention to try to simplify the
Visual environment using newer schemes such as Boost, which Arthur made us
aware of.

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...>
To: "Bruce Sherwood" <bas...@un...>; "vpusers"
<vis...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] distutils


> I am running into some isues as well.
>
> I am not sure it even solves the most substantial issues, but thinking
about
> it, is there any reason the Windows and non-Windows setup.py's cannot be
> separate scripts?
>
> Would also be interested in what you are running into.  Are the issues
> intra-Linux, Linux/Mac?
>
> Since I have only one Linux and no Mac to test, I suspect issues, but
cannot
> actually see them.
>
> Art
>
> Art
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Sherwood" <bas...@un...>
> To: "vpusers" <vis...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:51 AM
> Subject: [Visualpython-users] distutils
>
>
> > Prompted by Arthur Siegel's suggestions, Jonathan Brandmeyer and I have
> been
> > doing some experimenting with distutils as a mechanism for building
> VPython
> > installers. The situation is not as simple as one would like.
Dynamically
> > supporting all of our platforms and different compilers with a single
> script
> > will be difficult at best. We'll keep at this.
> >
> > Bruce Sherwood
> >
> >
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