On 06 July 2000, Paul F. Dubois said:
I found an error in the previous setup.py; it was installing headers in include/python1.6/Numerical instead of Numeric. This apparently gets fixed if you change the name of the package (which I otherwise thought didn't do anything.)
That's a feature. If Joe Blow releases an extension that requires the headers from NumPy, he should just have to specify, "I require the headers for <fill-in-the-blank>" and have Distutils take care of the -I paths for him. (It doesn't do this currently, but it could and should!) Don't tell me I'm the only one who's confused about whether it's "NumPy", "Numerical Python", or "Numeric Python", and whether the above blank should be filled in with "Numeric" or "Numerical". BTW, the distribution name is also used, obviously, to create source and built distributions. So naming the header file directory after it is not without precedent. (It does have the subtle side-effect that distribution names should be valid as part of the filename in C #include statements. I have no idea what restrictions that imposes... but it's probably just common sense to stick to [a-zA-Z0-9_-] in distribution names and filenames.) Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ "Question authority!" "Oh yeah? Says who?"