Re: [Numpy-discussion] setuptools/distutils merger & numpy.distutils

2020-09-05 Thread Ralf Gommers
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

Re: [Numpy-discussion] setuptools/distutils merger & numpy.distutils

2020-09-05 Thread David Cournapeau
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