On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:28 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Oct 27, 2015 6:08 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> [...] >> > >> > >> > What's the equivalent of >> > python setup.py build_ext --inplace >> >> It's >> python setup.py build_ext --inplace >> >> ;-) >> > Ok, Sorry, I read now the small print and the issue. > > Sounds reasonable, given we can `force` our way out. > > (If the reason to run to pip is a misspelled dev version number, then it > looks like a hammer to me.) >
That's not the reason. A main reason is that we want reliable uninstall of numpy, as explained in the initial post. We also want to avoid as many other broken parts of setuptools/easy_install as possible. Ralf
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