[Distutils] What's special about numpy, scipy, ...was: Remove distutils, was: red, green, refactor ...

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Oct 26, 2015 6:59 AM, "Wayne Werner" <waynejwerner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Güttler <
guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> >     I have a dream: For packaging and building package provides only
**data**. Data is condition-less: No single "if", "def" or method call.
Just data: json or yaml ...
>>> >
>>> >     Even for complex packages.
>>
>>
>> It's a nice dream -- but I think there is more or less a consensus on
this list that you really can't do everything completely declaratively. I
know I would find it very frustrating to have to hard-code everything up
front.
>
>
> I've seen this sentiment mentioned several times... Having only had
experience with sdist-style packages which are dead simple to define, do
you have any examples of some specific thing that's a pain to do
declaratively?

Test the system's implementation of the math.h 'tanh' function to decide
whether it correctly implements C99 annex F style handling of edge cases
and thus can be used safely, or whether we need to fall back to our
internal version of tanh instead, and define some appropriate C
preprocessor macros depending on the result.

-n
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