[Python-Dev] python/dist/src setup.py,1.52,1.53

[Greg Ward]

On 06 September 2001, Guido van Rossum said:
> Of course, there's the slight problem that you can't write the
> autoconfiguration for Python itself in Python.  This reduces the
> motivation, I suppose. :-(

Well, we could do the "probe for bsddb"-like stuff right, and in
Python.  Just not the "is this a 64-bit left-handed albino operating
system with a broken stdio?" stuff.

        Greg
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