On 20 August 2013 16:21, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 August 2013 16:09, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> BTW is there any reason for numpy et al not to start distributing >> wheels now? Is any part of the wheel >> specification/tooling/infrastructure not complete yet? > > Not really. It's up to them to do so, though. Maybe their toolset makes that > more difficult, I don't believe they use setuptools, for example - that's > their problem, but it may not be one they are interested in solving :-(
They seem to be using setuptools commands here: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/distutils/core.py#L48 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setupegg.py > The biggest issues outstanding are: > > 1. Script handling, which is a bit flaky still (but I don't think that > affects numpy) I think that they are responsible for installing the f2py script in each of my Scripts directories. I never use this script and I don't know what numpy wants with it (my understanding is that the Fortran parts of numpy were all shifted over to scipy). > 2. Tags (not in general, but AIUI numpy distribute a fancy installer that > decides what compiled code to use depending on whether you have certain CPU > features - they may want to retain that, and to do so may prefer to have > more fine-grained tags, which in turn may or may not be possible to > support). I don't think that's a critical issue though. I guess this is what you mean: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/tools/win32build/cpuid/test.c Is there no way for them to run a post-install script when pip installing wheels from PyPI? > Getting numpy et al on board would be a huge win - if wheels can satisfy > their needs, we could be pretty sure we haven't missed anything. And it gets > a big group of users involved, giving us a lot more real world use cases. > Feel like sounding the numpy community out on the idea? Maybe. I'm not usually on their mailing lists but I'd be willing to find out what they think. First I need to be clear that I know what I'm talking about though! Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
