David Cournapeau
Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
Christopher Barker wrote:
I know this has been discussed, but why doesn't numpy put its includes somewhere that distutils would know where to find it?
I think one answer is because distutils doesn't have defaults that play well with eggs. NumPy provides very nice extensions to distutils which will correctly add the include directories you need.
Concerning numpy.distutils, is anyone working on improving it ? There was some work started, but I have not seen any news on this front: am I missing something ? I would really like to have the possibility to compile custom extensions to be used through ctypes, and didn't go very far just by myself, unfortunately (understanding distutils is not trivial, to say the least).
I work on it off and on. As you say, it's not trivial :-) It also has a tendency to be fragile, so large changes are harder. Something will work for me, then I merge it into the trunk, and it breaks on half-a-dozen platforms that I can't test on :-) So, it's slow going. I've got a list of my current goals at http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/DistutilsRevamp. -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/ |cookedm@physics.mcmaster.ca