I've built numpy on many different machines, including supercomputers, and I have never used interactive setup. I agree with the proposal to remove it. A On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Charles R Harris

wrote:

In distutils there are three files that provide some interactive setup:

1. numpy/distutils/core.py 2. numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py 3. numpy/distutils/interactive.py

In Python3 `raw_input` has been renamed 'input' and python2 'input' is gone. I propose that the easiest solution to this compatibility problem is to remove all support for interactive numpy setup.

Thoughts?

Chuck

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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Aron Ahmadia wrote:

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I've built numpy on many different machines, including supercomputers, and I have never used interactive setup. I agree with the proposal to remove it.

A

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

...

In distutils there are three files that provide some interactive setup:

1. numpy/distutils/core.py 2. numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py 3. numpy/distutils/interactive.py

In Python3 `raw_input` has been renamed 'input' and python2 'input' is gone. I propose that the easiest solution to this compatibility problem is to remove all support for interactive numpy setup.

Thoughts?

+1 for removing

I note that the way to access it is to run python setup.py with no arguments. I wonder what the proper message should be in that case? Chuck

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:

I note that the way to access it is to run python setup.py with no arguments. I wonder what the proper message should be in that case?

Just let distutils handle it. $ python setup.py usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help error: no commands supplied Anyone who was expecting the interactive setup will probably complain here. -- Robert Kern