[Python-Dev] setup.py deleting files (Was: SSL support in _socket)

Fri, 1 Mar 2002 07:57:16 -0500

>>>>> "MvL" == Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

 MvL> I now recall why setup.py deletes modules that cannot be
 MvL> imported: If they would be left there, the test cases would
 MvL> fail with the ImportError. People had been complaining that
 MvL> they get testsuite failures, so we changed setup.py to remove
 MvL> the modules which clearly don't work.
Can we just rename them? I.e. bsddbmodule-failed.so
That would at least leave some artifact around so that the problem has
a chance of being debugged.
-Barry