setuptools

  • just let people write python programs, that you run to build a program…
    • this gives people the idea to check for the newest version of a library with urllib … during the build… a good build env has no network connection.
    • see: static building openjdk… ~/work/config/mods/static/python311…
      • and there was also a but, that the setup.py did ignore the —libxml2-version arg passed to it
      • and they obviosly also hardcode a -shared, so we get -shared + -static … shared and static.png
      • took hours to get this lxml python thing to build

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