[SciPy-user] Debian package(s)? -- and RPM

[Pearu Peterson]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

> I'm a little curious on one point.  How do you bootstrap all this on a
> pristine system?  My understanding is that "scipy" needs "f2py" to build,
> while the latter depends on having "scipy-core" installed.  But "scipy" and
> "scipy-core" are both in the same CVS tree, aren't they?  Are multiple
> tarballs generated from that tree?  What is the set of source tar balls
> and in what order do you build them?

I don't know what is pristine system but (scipy/f2py2e) setup.py files can
be modified so that they generate the required tarballs even if various
packages are in the same CVS tree. My initial idea of the tarballs would
be as follows (with the corresponding building order and TODO bits):

  scipy_core-???.tar.gz - contains scipy_test and scipy_distutils,
                          need to introduce scipy/setup_scipy_core.py
  f2py2e-???.tar.gz     - contains f2py2e (without scipy_distutils),
                          need to modify f2py2e/setup.py
  scipy-???.tar.gz      - contains scipy tree without scipy_test and
                          scipy_distutils directories,
                          need to modify scipy/setup_scipy.py

Pearu