Does numpy need a *.dist-info directory? What is the status of setuptools?
Hi All, A question for any packaging gurus out there, should NumPy have a *.dist-info <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/> directory? I note that currently we have a *.egg-info directory. I also have a question as to what role setuptools should have going forward. Should we still rely on them, or has pip matured to the degree that we no longer need it. Note that we will only be supporting Python >= 3.5 in the near future. Chuck
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
Those are both autogenerated, we don't have those in the repo. The current state of our packaging is fine in that respect.
Pip is not a build tool, it invokes setuptools. The only viable alternative to setuptools at the moment is scikit-build. But I'm not in a hurry to switch, I'd rather try scikit-build on less critical packages than numpy first. Cheers, Ralf
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
We don't want to go back to distutils-only; there are some advantages to setuptools and it's gotten less bad at breaking numpy.distutils over the last years. And anyway, even if we would switch away from setuptools, pip will enable setuptools before calling our own setup.py and at that point setuptools has already done its monkeypatch-distutils dance. So there's no point avoiding setuptools. Ralf
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
Those are both autogenerated, we don't have those in the repo. The current state of our packaging is fine in that respect.
Pip is not a build tool, it invokes setuptools. The only viable alternative to setuptools at the moment is scikit-build. But I'm not in a hurry to switch, I'd rather try scikit-build on less critical packages than numpy first. Cheers, Ralf
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
We don't want to go back to distutils-only; there are some advantages to setuptools and it's gotten less bad at breaking numpy.distutils over the last years. And anyway, even if we would switch away from setuptools, pip will enable setuptools before calling our own setup.py and at that point setuptools has already done its monkeypatch-distutils dance. So there's no point avoiding setuptools. Ralf
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