Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: new_compiler takes "compiler" as a compiler name. It would make much sense to make it accept a compiler instance.
now for people setup.py, I wasn't aware that people are using build_ext.compiler as a compiler, besides Python itself. IMHO we should rename the compiler option to "compiler_type" then provide an API build_ext.get_compiler() then fix Python setup.py file. Then this should not go into 2.6 but in 2.7, and we should put back the option in new_compiler like it was (it's wrong but at least it works if you run the command just once, which is the most common case) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5977> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
