2009/11/12 David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm confused now. > > The idea is that numpy.distutils adds a scons command, and if your > setup.py contains something like:
What I'm confused about is that you say that distutils should be scrapped and not incrementally improved, yet your effort of doing it "the right way" builds on distutils. > That's one of the reason why I find the claim of distutils > having a deep and large knowledge hard to believe. Me too, but I think the community does. And currently that knowledge is being focused into a bunch of PEP's. Which is the reason for my previous (and so far ignored) question if that work should be ignored, or if a new solution done The Right Way should build on those PEPs. And if it should, what the difference then is to the current effort of fixing distutils. If scons is the Right Way then it seems to me yet again that the whole discussion is moot, and that what should be done is to build extensions for scons to build/install/upload Python modules, and then after doing that, just saying "Use scons instead". If the community then agrees, scons will be used. Obviously you should then here on this list say that you are building these extensions and asking for help with it. Less talk, more hockey, as we say in Sweden. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig