Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Ewing
Thomas Heller wrote: > The best solution is to configure the mingw32 compiler in the distutils > configuration file. That's the same conclusion I came to. But it's unintuitive that you can't also do the same thing using command line options, or if you can, it's not obvious how to do it. -- Greg

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts

2006-04-21 Thread Thomas Heller
Greg Ewing wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > >> I do things like >> >> python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst >> >> which seem to work for me. Is that any help? > > Possibly. I'll have to try it next time I have the > problem and see. > > BTW, does that do anything different from

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Ewing
Paul Moore wrote: > I do things like > > python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst > > which seem to work for me. Is that any help? Possibly. I'll have to try it next time I have the problem and see. BTW, does that do anything different from python setup.py build --compil

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While we're on the subject of distutils revision, here > are a few things I've encountered about distutils which > seem less than desirable. > > * There doesn't seem to be a way of supplying options >on the command line for anything except the

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Ewing
While we're on the subject of distutils revision, here are a few things I've encountered about distutils which seem less than desirable. * There doesn't seem to be a way of supplying options on the command line for anything except the top-level command. Sometimes, e.g. I want to do an "insta