
Aug. 25, 2017
9:56 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017, at 10:26 PM, xoviat wrote: > > I'm more or less persuaded by Nathaniel's argument that the source > > directory shouldn't be on sys.path> > I do too. There should be an option in pyproject.toml to disable this > behavior though so that numpy can build itself. I'm not sure that's necessary: - As I've described, a special shim backend could load hooks from the source directory. This doesn't need us to specify another option in the toml file.- Nathaniel is one of the core numpy developers, so if he's not asking for that switch, numpy presumably doesn't need it. :-)