Re: [boost] [Git] Regression testing modular Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Regression testing modular Boost
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-29 20:32:24

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> on Sat Dec 29 2012, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> > Depends on your POV. It's pure in that it doesn't depend on the git
> sources
> > or binaries. But <https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/tree/master/dulwich>
> > certainly has C sources to compile.
>
> I think
> https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/blob/master/setup.py#L71
> answers that question.
>

Ah I see.. I'll need to figure out how to have it not ask for compiling
then. Since when I installed, IIRC, it insisted on compiling them.

>> So virtual installing wouldn't work.. Right?
>
> I think you can install extension modules in a virtualenv, but you might
> not want to ask people to compile them anyway.
>

My preference would be to avoid compiling. And ideally self-install stuff
(this is what we already do with our own scripts).

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