On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:28 PM, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
On Oct 27, 2015 6:08 AM, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What's the equivalent of
> python setup.py build_ext --inplace

It's
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

;-)
Ok, Sorry, I read now the small print and the issue.

Sounds reasonable, given we can `force` our way out.

(If the reason to run to pip is a misspelled dev version number, then it looks like a hammer to me.)

That's not the reason. A main reason is that we want reliable uninstall of numpy, as explained in the initial post. We also want to avoid as many other broken parts of setuptools/easy_install as possible.

Ralf