Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:33:27PM -0400, Graham Fawcett wrote:
>
>>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'.
>
>
> Someone need to submit a patch.  I don't have Windows with VC++ (or the
> desire to twittle with it).
>
>   Neil

I've posted one to the list that does what I proposed above, but it
might be out of sync... I'll fetch the latest tarball and submit a patch.

-- G