Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com>
Tiny patch for py3k attached.
Should the generated numpy/version.py be in .gitignore? Is there a better name in order to signal the generated nature of the file?
I thought it already was, but if not, yes, I think it should be added. I suppose we could add a 'generated' suffix to the name to mark it as such, but really it seems the file should go into the build directory somewhere, although that might make it difficult to access if needed in other parts of the build. Having the generated file in the main tree was something that bothered me when I committed the patch, but not enought to try to fix it.
I never really understood what numpy/__config__.py was for, or how it came about, but I had the impression that was the place that build-time stuff got written - is that correct? Would it be a sensible place to write version information? See you, Matthew