Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry George wrote: > >> We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order, >> and expect the next package to find them. "configure" does this for >> hundreds of packages. cmake, scons, and others also tackle this >> problem. Python's old setup.py seems to be able to do it. > > No, generic setup.py scripts don't do anything of that kind. >
Ok, setup.py itself may not do the work, but from the end users' perspective it works that way. Setup.py runs a configure and a make, which in turn find the right already-installed libraries. The point is, setup.py plays well in such an environment. > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
