On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:27 AM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 10:01, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:40 PM Sandro Tosi <sandro.t...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > 4. Write a docs page with migration info on how to deal with the
>>> deprecation, and update it before the 1.23.0 release.
>>>
>>> i think this will be extremely important. Just to give you the current
>>> POV of debian projects using numpy.distutils:
>>>
>>> -
>>> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=numpy.distutils+-package%3Anumpy&literal=0&perpkg=1
>>> (there are 74 of them)
>>> -
>>> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=from+numpy+import+.*distutils&literal=0
>>> (only one "from numpy import distutils")
>>>
>>> hope this could help you come up with a smooth deprecation process :)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Sandro, that is helpful. I had a look at all those 15 pages of
>> search results:
>>
> ...
>
>>  Theano is the only real consumer of numpy.distutils BLAS/LAPACK support,
>> which they should vendor if they don't want to switch build systems.
>>
>
> Note that Theano is no longer maintained as seen at the top of the README:
> https://github.com/Theano/Theano
>
> Forked development continues under the name Aesara:
> https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara
>
> Not sure if Aesara differs in respect of using numpy.distutils but Theano
> is 2 years out of date in comparison.
>

Thanks for pointing that out Oscar. Still the same situation, one
nontrivial use to query for BLAS config:
https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara/blob/4468ba601f96d82a387ab0d8ab09bdedbf9bf49a/aesara/link/c/cmodule.py#L2634

Cheers,
Ralf
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