[lxml-dev] changes to lxml's setup.py

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Sidnei, Martijn,

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Martijn Faassen <faassen at infrae.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> No functionality should've changed, though I'd like people to test the
>> static build option on Windows. The way to set the static paths is
>> somewhat easier now; see the static build section in doc/build.txt for
>> more information.
> <snip>
>> I've also made everything depend in a hard way on setuptools being
>> available on the system - I think supporting old-style distutils is just
>> going to be too much of a distraction to maintain properly.
> <snip>

Martijn, first of all: thanks for doing that - t'was a good idea.


> That dependency on setuptools broke the buildbot. Since it builds
> Python 2.5 and trunk from scratch before building lxml, should I add
> an extra step so it pulls in setuptools?

That would be helpful, yes. I think the dependency on setuptools is acceptable
- although lxml can actually be built with standard distutils, so it's
somewhat artificial.

One more thing: since you'll have setuptools available anyway - could you
consider letting the buildbot build an egg from the lxml sources and copy them
somewhere where they are publicly available? That would give us the
opportunity to provide recent egg builds for the Windows platform. Given the
download numbers on cheeseshop, those are the ones that are most wanted. It
would be best to have those compiled against the Py2.5 branch.

Thanks,
Stefan