On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Christian Engwer < > christian.eng...@uni-muenster.de> wrote: > >> Dear Ralf, >> >> > I stared at it for a while, and can't figure it out despite you >> following >> > the example in the add_npy_pkg_config docstring pretty much to the >> letter. >> > When you see that the error is generated in a function that starts with >> ``# >> > XXX: another ugly workaround to circumvent distutils brain damage.``, >> > you're usually in trouble..... >> >> what a pity... do you have an alternative suggestion? Is there a good >> alternative, e.g. using cmake, to distribute python modules? >> > > > I wouldn't give up on distutils here (yet). For distributing/installing > python packages, PyPi + pip are the de-facto standard and pip is currently > tied to distutils/setuptools unfortunately. > Correction: the above is only completely true if you rely on source builds. You can't avoid those with PyPi on Linux, but if you only need to support Windows and OS X nowadays you can get away with no disutils if you upload only binary wheels for those OSes to PyPi. Regarding alternatives, this discussion is a bit older but mostly still relevant: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/27788 Ralf
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