Get rid of configure/make? (was Re: [Zope-dev] Re: SVN: Zope/trunk/ Merge philikon-zope32-integration branch. Basically, this branch entails:)

[Jim Fulton]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 11/4/05, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>>Having said that, I don't really like the configure/make farce myself.
> 
> 
> Farce?

We aren't running the real configure.  We aren't really using make.
We're just using make as a wrapper around setup.py.

> 
>>I'd be happy to get rid of it.  I'm also happy to defer to the vocal
>>majority.  Maybe it's worth revisiting this, which is why the provocative
>>subject. :)
> 
> 
> I read through this post and I don't grok what the suggested alternative is.

Use the standard Python mechanism for installing things, for example, in
a checkout:

   python setup.py build_ext -i

Jim

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