[Distutils] numpy's distutils fork circa 2001

[Chris Withers]

On 29/11/2012 23:00, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>
> But while I know the problem you mentioned has come up on the SciPy
> list, it really is a trifle in this context. Having to remember to
> install NumPy before SciPy is not what people have issues with.
>
> The pain points SciPy deals with are just from a different world. I
> think the most common problems are of the sort a) linking with the right
> LAPACK in the right way, b) using Fortran compilers with distutils and
> in particular combining various Fortran compilers with various C runtime
> libraries on Windows.
>
> Going beyond SciPy and just to provide another example, a non-trivial
> number of scientific projects use Fortran and Cython and NumPy together;
> that's basically unachievable with either distutils or numpy.distutils
> or Cython.Distutils (so one uses an actual build tool such as CMake or
> scons of waf instead; distutils doesn't really qualify (or was meant to
> be) a build tool after all).

I wonder if this is where the wheel format fits in? If I understand, it 
lets you use build tools to do the build, and then wheel is just the 
distribution format.

Perhaps Daniel can chime in on this?

Chris

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