document hack removal, leave hack in place for backward compatability with verify()

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cffi/verifier.py b/cffi/verifier.py
index d38866a..b4ca8b2 100644
--- a/cffi/verifier.py
+++ b/cffi/verifier.py
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ else:
                 s = s.encode('ascii')
             super(NativeIO, self).write(s)
 
+def _hack_at_distutils():
+    # Windows-only workaround for some configurations: see
+    # https://bugs.python.org/issue23246 (Python 2.7.9)
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        try:
+            import setuptools    # for side-effects, patches distutils
+        except ImportError:
+            pass
+
 
 class Verifier(object):
 
@@ -112,6 +121,7 @@ class Verifier(object):
         return basename
 
     def get_extension(self):
+        _hack_at_distutils() # backward compatibility hack
         if not self._has_source:
             with self.ffi._lock:
                 if not self._has_source: