I'm creating a Python application that is internal to my organization, but will be installed on both Linux and Mac OS X machines.  The application depends heavily on a number of "non-pure" modules (those that have C/C++/FORTRAN components), like numpy, scipy, gdal, etc.

What is the most "pythonic" way to bundle these types of modules inside my application?

I've investigated dist_utils and setuptools, and I don't see an easy way with those tools to include build instructions for packages built with autconf tools.

Is my only recourse to write a custom install script that calls the "configure;make;make install" from a shell?

--Mike



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Michael Hearne
mhearne@usgs.gov
(303) 273-8620
USGS National Earthquake Information Center
1711 Illinois St. Golden CO 80401
Senior Software Engineer
Synergetics, Inc.
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