Hi,

I would like to know what the UI should be for numscons wrt to compilation / link flags. This is an issue which has confused many people with distutils, and something we can fix with numscons. Several approaches are possible for numscons, but I was wondering about the preferred behavior. Right now, by default: - using CFLAGS will only change debug/warning/optimization flags (that is, you can't remove -fPIC with CFLAGS on platforms which need it). I understand than totally overwriting the flags should also be possible (e.g. the current *distutils* behavior). Is handling new compilers the only reason, in which case a better solution is available for numscons through scons tools ? - using LDFLAGS: I do not use it right now. Is anything needed on this front ?

More generally, since numscons is easier to use now thanks to the merge into the numpy trunk, and can work on all major platforms since 0.4.1 release, I am interested in getting feedback from numpy developers as well. Internally, I tried to make as few choices as possible, so it should be quite flexible wrt things difficult to handle with distutils.

thanks,

David