attributes, etc. Biggest change was to the Distribution constructor
-- it now looks for an 'options' attribute, which contains values
(options) that are explicitly farmed out to the commands. Also,
certain options supplied to Distribution (ie. in the 'setup()' call in
setup.py) are now "command option aliases", meaning they are dropped
right into a certain command rather than being distribution options.
This is handled by a new Distribution class attribute,
'alias_options'.
Various comment changes to reflect the new way-of-thinking.
Added 'get_command_name()' method to Command -- was assuming its
existence all along as 'command_name()', so changed the code that
needs it to call 'get_command_name()'.
now provided (minus the leading underscore) by the ccompiler module.
Fix 'compile()' to return the list of object files generated.
Cosmetic tweaks/delete cruft.
Added big comment about the kludginess of passing 'build_options'
to the link methods and how to fix it.
Added 'gen_preprocess_options()' and 'gen_lib_options()' convenience
functions -- the two cases are very similar for Unix C Compilers and
VC++, so I figured I might as well unify the implementations.
- fix some broken abstract methods
- kludge: add 'build_info' parameter to link methods
- add 'object_name()' and 'shared_library_name()'
- support for MSVCCompiler class on NT/Win95
Added 'verbose' and 'dry_run' parameters to constructor.
Changed 'compile()', 'link_*()' to default lists arguments to None
rather than empty list.
Added implementations of the filename-mangling methods mandated by
the CCompiler interface.
'new_compiler()' factory function.
Added 'runtime_library_dirs' list (for -R linker option) and methods
to manipulate it.
Deleted some obsolete comments.
Added all the filename manglign methods: 'object_filenames()',
'shared_object_filename()', 'library_filename()',
'shared_library_filename()'.
Added 'spawn()' method (front end to the "real" spawn).
- did away with 'comment_re' option -- it's just not that simple anymore
- heavily revised the main logic in 'readline()' to accomodate this
Beefed up 'warn()': 'line' can be list or tuple, and 'msg' is
automatically converted to a string.
'install_site_lib' and install_site_platlib' on non-POSIX platforms.
Should at least work for NT, as this is adopted from Amos Latteier's NT
patches. Also added extensive comments bitching about the inadequacy of
the current model, both under POSIX and NT (and probably other) systems.
'run_command()' to refer to it before attempting to run a command --
that way, command classes can freely invoke other commands without fear
of duplicate execution.
Beefed up some comments and docstrings.
meaningful return values: respectively, whether the copy was done, and
the list of files that were copied. This meant some trivial changes in
core.py as well: the Command methods that mirror 'copy_file()' and
'copy_tree()' have to pass on their return values.
of the 'install_py' command rather than 'build_py'. Obviously, this
meant that the 'build_py' and 'install_py' modules had to change; less
obviously, so did 'install' and 'build', since these higher-level
commands must make options available to control the lower-level
commands, and some compilation-related options had to migrate with the
code.
and dry-run flags consistently painless): 'execute()', 'mkpath()',
'copy_file()', 'copy_tree()', 'make_file()', and stub for 'make_files()'
(not sure yet if it's useful).
that wrap them in the Command class).
Fixed 'copy_file()' to use '_copy_file_contents()', not 'copyfile()'
from shutil module -- no reference to shutil anymore.
Added "not copying" announcement in 'copy_file()'.
Wee comment fix.
Greg Ward
Fred Drake