Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:34:19PM -0700, Jim Dukarm wrote:
>
>>Here is a suggestion: Quixote's setup.py should test whether
>>sys.platform == 'win32' and if it it true, install the Python-only
>>version of htmltext.
>
>
> The current code does that.
>
>
>>If a Windows binary of htmltext is posted for download from the
>>Quixote downloads page, the hapless Windows user can go get it if/when
>>it is needed.
>
> FWIW, we see a significant performance increase when using the C
> htmltext extension.  If people have a compiler I recommend building
> it.  I guess I'm biased since I wrote the extension.

Agreed -- I would want the performance if I could get it.

I'm going to propose _again_ that setup should:

-- try to build the extension
-- catch the SystemExit (which distutils throws if build_ext fails)
-- fail over to the Python implementation, with a warning to the user.

I don't think we should test for 'win32'. There are win32 boxes with
compilers installed, and there are (I'm sure, somewhere) *nix boxes
without compilers installed (available to the users).

-- Graham