dbuilder, pakage manager, dget

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:33 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:

> pip (and easy_install) are package downloaders and installers, invoke
> bytecode generation of the installed, they are not build tools.  The
> offerings for build tools from the Python arena are SCons and Waf.

I guess I should have added that because C and C++ can be used to
realize CPython PVM extensions, Python package installers have to know
how to compile C and C++ code to shared objects / dynamically linked
libraries.  

-- 
Russel.
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