David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Travis E. Oliphant wrote: >> Christopher Barker wrote: >> >>> I know this has been discussed, but why doesn't numpy put its includes >>> somewhere that distutils would know where to find it? >>> >>> >> I think one answer is because distutils doesn't have defaults that play >> well with eggs. NumPy provides very nice extensions to distutils which >> will correctly add the include directories you need. >> > Concerning numpy.distutils, is anyone working on improving it ? There > was some work started, but I have not seen any news on this front: am I > missing something ? I would really like to have the possibility to > compile custom extensions to be used through ctypes, and didn't go very > far just by myself, unfortunately (understanding distutils is not > trivial, to say the least).
I work on it off and on. As you say, it's not trivial :-) It also has a tendency to be fragile, so large changes are harder. Something will work for me, then I merge it into the trunk, and it breaks on half-a-dozen platforms that I can't test on :-) So, it's slow going. I've got a list of my current goals at http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/DistutilsRevamp. -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
