Re: [Visualpython-users] Aqua port - stumped by autoconf

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 21:06 -0700, Dethe Elza wrote:
> On 19-Oct-05, at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> >
> > Are you (or anyone else out there) familiar with Scons?
> 
> What is wrong with using distutils[1], the standard method for  
> building Python extensions?  The new Setuptools[2] package makes it  
> even easier, and supports EasyInstall[3] and Python Eggs[4].
> 
> [1] http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html
> [2] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
> [3] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
> [4] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs

But it doesn't properly support C++, or the use of a compiler other than
the one that built Python itself.  Those features are absolutely
required for VPython.

-Jonathan