[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!

[Matt Behrens]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:

> On 3/1/02 7:30 AM, "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com> wrote:

>>I'd suggest starting with the combination of Evan's zopemake and zctl
>>scripts.  One thing that zopemake could be extended with is an
>>autoconf-style "configure" that figures out where the appropriate version of
>>Python is, which C compiler to use, etc.

> Can't the distutils framework be used?  It's got all of the utilities to
> deal with various platform issues already.

I'm all for using distutils to handle build issues, but a 
configure-style script might still be nice to set build and install 
options.  I actually have patches right now that modifies do.py to 
generate setup.py's on the fly, this could easily be adapted to the 
current Zope 2.