> I don't know how much we can count on distutils/distribute/scons/? to > support non-gnu toolchains. On the other hand, if we're just using > pure Python, then I agree that it would lend itself to a much cleaner > build system (though then we risk re-inventing the wheel...)
Maybe somebody more familiar with python than me should look at "buildout". http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout Given that sage is a collection of (sub)programs + some clueing code, I'd say that might also be an option. The Plone (plone.org) people are using it to build and manage different subpackages. Given my experience with Plone, I find it rather attractive that I just have to change a version number in buildout.cfg and re-build and the system will pull the new version from pypi.python.org and install it locally. That is rather similar to what I've seen Sage doing with it's spkg system only that the buildout is properly taking care of version numbers. Ralf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
