Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
On 10/20/07, David Cournapeau <david@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: And I
hope that in the end, scons will be used for numpy (for 1.1 ?), once I finish the conversion.
I don't see situations where adding 350 Kb in the tarball can be an issue, so could you tell me what the problem would be ?
Then if numpy is going to use scons for build itself in the near future, then there is no problem, and including scons in numpy tarball is good from the user side.
Just as a precision: I am the only one so far working on this (using scons instead of distutils), and no decision has been made whether it will be used at all in the future.
Just a final observation. Try to make it possible to reuse a scons other than that included in numpy tarball. Packagers would be happy with this.
Yes, I though about that, it would not be too difficult to handle (and scons has a simple mechanism to ensure a given version), since scons is called externally (it could be a option given to the scons command inside distutils, for example). cheers, David