New submission from Ray Donnelly: I'm submitting this patch as it was suggested I do so by Antoine Pitrou on #python-dev. As such, it's more a point of discussion than a patch I'm trying to get merged (for one thing, my build is a MinGW GCC compiled and I've not considered the MSVC Windows build).
I ran into a problem with a customisation I made to cygwinccompiler.py where I wanted to use Popen to ask gcc where it's ld is: out = Popen(gcc+' --print-prog-name ld', shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout This has worked fine before on 2.7.3, but with 3.3.0, subprocess can't be imported as _winapi isn't builtin, instead, it's built by setup.py as a module. So is this the right thing to do? Or is distutils not supposed to use subprocess during bootstrapping? ---------- files: _winapi_as_builtin_for_distutils_bootstrap.patch keywords: patch messages: 175393 nosy: Ray.Donnelly, pitrou, sbt priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Mostly for discussion: _winapi as builtin for bootstrapping distutils. type: behavior versions: Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27962/_winapi_as_builtin_for_distutils_bootstrap.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16454> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
