aorry for the delay responding.... Greg said:
BTW, Is anyone in the NumPy community keeping on top of Distutils?
i know that Paul Dubois feels very strongly about supporting Distutils. In fact, its now the only way to build the module on its own. and i see Joe Van Andel posts regularly to distutils (this is my first time stopping by) and he is a regular on Numeric as well.
There have been a *lot* of changes since 0.1.3 was released in January, and I have been rather free with making incompatible changes (because there's no way I'm gonna be able to get away with them after Python 1.6/Distutils 1.0 are out). I've also been keeping my examples/numpy_setup.py script up-to-date with the changes, in hopes that some eager NumPy hacker will keep an eye on the changes in Distutils and be ready to update NumPy's real setup script when the time comes.
what do you mean 'real setup script'? i think distutils is it now. anyway. i'll try to track the latest distutils for you as i stay with the cvs builds of numpy. les schaffer