On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.harris@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Benjamin Root ben.v.root@gmail.com wrote:
This is the first I am hearing of tempita (looks to be a templating language). How is it a dependency of numpy? Do I now need tempita in order to use numpy, or is it a build-time-only dependency?
Build time only. The virtue of tempita is that it can be used to generate cython sources. We could adapt one of our current templating scripts to do that also, but that would seem to be more work. Note that tempita is currently included in cython, but the cython folks consider that an implemention detail that should not be depended upon.
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Chuck
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Ideally, it's packaged in such a way that it's usable for scipy too -- at the moment it's used in scipy.sparse via Cython.Tempita + a fallback to system installed tempita if Cython.Tempita is not available (however I'm not sure that fallback is ever exercised). Since scipy needs to support numpy down to 1.8.2, a vendorized copy will not be usable for scipy for quite a while.
So, it'd be great to handle it like numpydoc: to have npy_tempita as a small self-contained package with the repo under the numpy organization and include it via a git submodule. Chuck, do you think tempita would need much in terms of maintenance?
To put some money where my mouth is, I can offer to do some legwork for packaging it up.
Cheers,
Evgeni