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Author	sbt
Recipients	Arfrever, doko, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, ned.deily, pitrou, sbt
Date	2012-09-05.10:55:01
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Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<[email protected]>
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If sysconfig._generate_posix_vars() creates the build directory and pybuilddir.txt (instead of setup.py) then it could write _sysconfigdata.py in the correct place. Then setup.py would not have to mess with its own sys.path. One issue with having _sysconfigdata.py in the build dir is that distutils copies it (along with everything else in the build dir) to .../lib/python3.x/lib-dynload. So I think Matthias' patch results in two copies of _sysconfigdata.py being installed (plus __pycache__/_sysconfigdata.pyc).

If sysconfig._generate_posix_vars() creates the build directory and pybuilddir.txt (instead of setup.py) then it could write _sysconfigdata.py in the correct place.  Then setup.py would not have to mess with its own sys.path.

One issue with having _sysconfigdata.py in the build dir is that distutils copies it (along with everything else in the build dir) to .../lib/python3.x/lib-dynload.  So I think Matthias' patch results in two copies of _sysconfigdata.py being installed (plus __pycache__/_sysconfigdata.pyc).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-09-05 10:55:03	sbt	set	recipients: + sbt, georg.brandl, doko, pitrou, ned.deily, eric.araujo, Arfrever
2012-09-05 10:55:03	sbt	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2012-09-05 10:55:02	sbt	link	issue15298 messages
2012-09-05 10:55:01	sbt	create