Hi David, > Sorry for the confusion: numscons is NOT the preferred build system. > The current numpy.distutils extensions, as shipped by numpy, is the > preferred one. Numscons is more an experiment, if you want.
Ah, I see, thanks for the clarification. >> So is it supposed to be in Debian? > > No, I don't think it should be. It is not yet stabilized code wise, so > it does not make much sense to package it. Ok. > >> Is numscons supposed to be >> a build system for other projects as well? Why not to just send the >> needed patches to scons and just use scons? > > Because you cannot just use scons. Numscons is a library build on top > of scons, for the needs of numpy. There also needs to be some hook > from numpy.distutils to use scons (numscons adds a new distutils > command, which is used instead of build to build any compiled > code-based extensions). Most of the changes needed for scons have been > integrated upstream, though, except one or two things. I see. I think it's a bit confusing that one needs to build a new build system just to build numpy, e.g. that both distutils and scons are not good enough. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
