Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Douglas Anderson <dja@××××××.com>
To: "gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Symlinks with distutils
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 04:07:02
Message-Id: F066A3B4-E380-4A9E-B72F-1BADFC28DD81@gendja.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Symlinks with distutils by "Michael A. Smith"
1 On May 5, 2009, at 10:37 PM, "Michael A. Smith" <michael@××××××××.com>
2 wrote:
3
4 > In theory, doing symlinks with distutils isn't a big deal, but
5 > distutils.core.setup doesn't have the capability built in.
6 > (distutils.file_util
7 > does, but it's not clear how to trigger that intuitively within
8 > setup().) So
9 > for the changes to gentoolkit for 0.3, I vote we keep the ebuild
10 > dosyms, and
11 > leave distutils out of the business of symlinks, to be revisited at
12 > a later
13 > date. Agree?
14 >
15 > Best wishes,
16 > Michael (a.k.a. kojiro)
17 >
18
19 Sounds good to me.
20 -Doug