On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ilan Schnell <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello Charles, > > it was indeed the intention to change the build process of the core > libndarray to use autoconf. I've tested it on Linux, Mac, Solaris, and > it works very well. libndarray is really a separate project, which only > resides for current development inside the numpy project. The point > is that you can build libndarray without having a particular Python > installed. The hope is that libndarray becomes used by other projects > which are not Python based, for example: > * a pure C program > * a Perl C extension > * a Ruby C extension > > I thought that autoconf was the obvious choice for doing this, and also > that is cleaner than numpy.distutils. > > So does numpy currently build on top of libndarray or is that something for the future also? It would also be useful for David C. to offer his thoughts on building/packaging, did you consult with him by any chance? Chuck
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