[Zope-Coders] setup.py

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    GvR> The docstring says:

    GvR> Common usage: python setup.py build_ext --build-lib
    GvR> `pwd`/lib/python

How does that differ from

    python setup.py build_ext --inplace

?

    >> 3.  I'm not building anything that's not in the Zope module
    >> within the Zope setup.py.  So anything ZEO, etc. needs to be
    >> built in its own setup.py-age.

    GvR> I don't understand what you're saying here.  Are you just
    GvR> telling us that you're not creating a setup.py for ZEO?

    GvR> Question: how does your setup.py affect standalone ZODB?

Does it make sense for the top setup.py to search subdirectories for
setup.py's and "call" them?  That would allow you to drop add-ons like
bsddb3Storage into place and have them built and installed
automatically.

Currently, I believe the test runners do find bsddb3Storage's test
subdir and it executes those tests automatically.  setup.py should
work similarly, I think.

-Barry