Build Rakudo with Distutils

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Mar 29 15:28:12 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:35:39AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> More broadly, I also thought it worth highlighting how when distutils 
> doesn't work, it can be difficult for an ordinary user to do anything 
> about it.  This is a portability and support question that the rakudo 
> folks should consider carefully before deciding what to do.

FWIW, this continues to be one of my primary objections to 
distutils in general.  Makefiles are generally well understood
and ubiquitous.  I'm not sure we're ready for yet-another-
configuration-and-build-tool.

Pm


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