On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> A question for any packaging gurus out there, should NumPy have a >> *.dist-info <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/> directory? I >> note that currently we have a *.egg-info directory. >> > > Those are both autogenerated, we don't have those in the repo. The current > state of our packaging is fine in that respect. > > >> I also have a question as to what role setuptools should have going >> forward. Should we still rely on them, or has pip matured to the degree >> that we no longer need it. Note that we will only be supporting Python >= >> 3.5 in the near future. >> > > Pip is not a build tool, it invokes setuptools. The only viable > alternative to setuptools at the moment is scikit-build. But I'm not in a > hurry to switch, I'd rather try scikit-build on less critical packages than > numpy first. > I was more thinking of distutils vs setuptools, but maybe I am misunderstanding the relationship between the two. Chuck
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