Hi Alexander,

Thanks for your interest in improving Python.  I’m forced to reject your request because

- Python 2.7 does not get new features (and support for cross-compilation would be one).

- distutils does not get new features (we had to freeze it because improvements broke many setup scripts depending on undocumented behavior or working around bugs).

- This request has been made many times already: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/110099.html

To get cross-compilation, here’s one would have to do:

- Work on distutils2, the replacement for distutils and setuptools (it’s included in Python 3.3 under the “packaging” name).

- Define exactly what is supported (cross-compiling from any platform to any platform for example), possibly by reviewing all other bug reports about and hashing things out on the distutils-sig mailing list.

- Think about getting buildbots running to make sure we don’t get regressions.