From: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'python-build-system'
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:24:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517EC8FE.4020603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87li81k13r.fsf@gnu.org>
On 04/29/2013 01:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Cyril Roelandt<tipecaml@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> On 04/28/2013 03:55 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
>>>> What’s the status of this? It would be great to have it in time for
>>>> 0.2.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll try to finalize it today.
>>
>> Should we really call this "python-build-system" ? I think there are a
>> few different build systems for Python, even though they are all forks
>> of one another (distutils, setuptools, distutils2, distribute, and
>> maybe others).
>
> But how do they differ from the user’s POV? My understanding was that
> distutils* and setuptools provide the ‘python setup.py’ interface, with
> the same arguments and everything, no?
>
Well, I have always used "python setup.py <subcommand>", but there might
be a few differences between these build systems:
http://wokslog.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/distutils-diff/
Cyril.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-29 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-05 18:21 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-07 10:34 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-23 9:49 ` ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls) (was: 'python-build-system') Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-23 11:51 ` ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls) Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-23 15:03 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-23 16:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-27 15:14 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-28 1:55 ` 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-28 17:18 ` 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-28 20:52 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-29 3:50 ` 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-29 11:42 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-08 1:52 ` 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-05-08 16:47 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-08 23:22 ` 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-05-09 20:29 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-29 19:33 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-30 15:04 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-28 22:50 ` 'python-build-system' Cyril Roelandt
2013-04-29 11:50 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-29 19:24 ` Cyril Roelandt [this message]
2013-04-30 13:47 ` 'python-build-system' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-05-06 21:07 ` 'python-build-system' Ludovic Courtès
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