On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Toby St Clere Smithe <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm sure you're all aware of this, I wasn't actually. > but I wonder if there's any progress > for me to be aware of. I've got an extension that I build with > distutils. It requires numpy both to build and to run, so I have numpy > in both setup_requires and install_requires. Yet setup.py builds numpy > twice -- once for the build stage, and then again on installation. This > seems inefficient to me -- why not just build it once? Is this by > design? > Seems fairly inefficient, so I'd guess it's not by design. Note that if numpy is already installed, you may want to avoid adding the *_requires arguments in order not to silently upgrade or break the installed numpy. Something like https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/3566/files Ralf > > Best regards, > > > -- > Toby St Clere Smithe > http://tsmithe.net > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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