On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:36:37PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
FYI about what? I'm not sure that I see the point here.
Are you trying to say that ActiveState can provide tools for packaging? Maybe that we can get NumPy packaged for people?
This one, I believe. HoumanG has been working on PyPM (like PPM for Python) for which he is creating appropriate setup.py scripts for packages such as NumPy. I wrote a new setup.py script for NumPy a week ago. The script I wrote builds the RANLIB and the LALITE as part of the core NumPy; and the binary distribution of NumPy built with my script also installs the RANLIB and LALITE. If the question is that Distutils supports a source tree structure like the one NumPy has, the question is no. However, I made a patch (for Distutils) and submitted to SourceForge which allows the source tree to be spread in more than one directory. A copy of the patch is in the attachment. Houman