Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >> Tiny patch for py3k attached. >> >> Should the generated numpy/version.py be in .gitignore? Is there a >> better name in order to signal the generated nature of the file? >> > > I thought it already was, but if not, yes, I think it should be added. I > suppose we could add a 'generated' suffix to the name to mark it as such, > but really it seems the file should go into the build directory somewhere, > although that might make it difficult to access if needed in other parts of > the build. Having the generated file in the main tree was something that > bothered me when I committed the patch, but not enought to try to fix it.
I never really understood what numpy/__config__.py was for, or how it came about, but I had the impression that was the place that build-time stuff got written - is that correct? Would it be a sensible place to write version information? See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
