[Numpy-discussion] Remove bento from numpy

[Julian Taylor]

On 05.07.2014 18:40, David Cournapeau wrote:
> The efforts are on average less demanding than this discussion. We are
> talking about adding entries to a list in most cases...
> 
> Also, while adding the optimization support for bento, I've noticed that
> a lot of the related distutils code is broken, and does not work as
> expected on at least OS X + clang.

It just spits out a lot of warnings but they are harmless.
We could remove them by using with -Werror=attribute for the conftests
if it really bothers someone.
Or do you mean something else?

> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com
> <mailto:njs at pobox.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:21 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com
>     <mailto:cournape at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:17 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com
>     <mailto:njs at pobox.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Maybe bento will revive and take over the new python packaging world!
>     >> Maybe not. Maybe something else will. I don't see how our support for
>     >> it will really affect these outcomes in any way. And I especially
>     >> don't see why it's important to spend time *now* on keeping bento
>     >> working, just in case it becomes useful *later*.
>     >
>     > But it is working right now, so that argument is moot.
> 
>     My suggestion was that we should drop the rule that a patch has to
>     keep bento working to be merged. We're talking about future breakages
>     and future effort. The fact that it's working now doesn't say anything
>     about whether it's worth continuing to invest time in it.
> 
>     --
>     Nathaniel J. Smith
>     Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh
>     http://vorpus.org
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