On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 6:40 PM Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> On 06/09/2020 11:28, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 9:50 AM Daniele Nicolodi
> > This may be bigger endeavor, but wouldn't it be possible to extend
> > setuptools interfaces in a way that plugging in the fortran sup
On 06/09/2020 11:28, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 9:50 AM Daniele Nicolodi
> This may be bigger endeavor, but wouldn't it be possible to extend
> setuptools interfaces in a way that plugging in the fortran support does
> not require monkey patching or accessing the impl
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 9:50 AM Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> On 06/09/2020 07:06, David Cournapeau wrote:
> > Assuming the numpy.distutils codebase has not changed much in the last
> > 10 years, my sense is that a lot of the features that relied on monkey
> > patching can be merged upstream, fortran
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 6:07 AM David Cournapeau wrote:
> I will comment with more details on GH, but I think jraco's suggestion
> makes a lot of sense. I would be willing to spend some time to merge
> upstream (i.e. setuptools now :) ) some of our changes in numpy.distutils.
>
Thanks David!
>
On 06/09/2020 07:06, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Assuming the numpy.distutils codebase has not changed much in the last
> 10 years, my sense is that a lot of the features that relied on monkey
> patching can be merged upstream, fortran support being one notable
> exception.
This may be bigger endea
I will comment with more details on GH, but I think jraco's suggestion
makes a lot of sense. I would be willing to spend some time to merge
upstream (i.e. setuptools now :) ) some of our changes in numpy.distutils.
Assuming the numpy.distutils codebase has not changed much in the last 10
years, my
Hi all,
Preliminary conclusion: let's pin all packages to setuptools < 50.0 and
wait for 6-9 months till the dust settles. Things may still change; the
reception of PEP 632 [1] hasn't been a "great idea, let's just rip it out
without a plan" one so far.
Cheers,
Ralf
[1] https://discuss.python.or
Hi all,
I spent some time looking at the fallout of the setuptools 50.0 release.
There's quite a few small issues, those can/should all be worked around by
pinning setuptools to a lower version.
The root cause and main longer-term issue is that numpy.distutils extends
and monkeypatches distutils,
