STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
> Why do we need to sort those extensions by name? Because calling sorted() is easy. Any other arbitrary choice would make sense. But giving the ability to build sources in a specific order, add dependencies, or something else, would a new features. Also, distutils is now deprecated in the stdlib: the steering council approved https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/ You should now report distutils issues to setuptools. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36302> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
