Hi all, I recently noticed one of my in-house projects started leaving aroun .egg-info directories after I ran its setup.py, even though I don't use setuptools for anything at all. For now I just added an extra clean rule to my makefile and forgot about it, but it kind of annoyed me.
Today I looked at the temp directory where I've been making my numpy/scipy installs from SVN, and here's what I saw: longs[site-packages]> d /home/fperez/tmp/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages total 228 drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-21 22:16 dateutil/ drwxr-xr-x 7 fperez 4096 2006-06-28 02:50 matplotlib/ drwxr-xr-x 13 fperez 4096 2006-06-28 02:38 numpy/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-21 21:28 numpy-0.9.9.2660-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-22 21:29 numpy-0.9.9.2665-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-24 11:33 numpy-0.9.9.2674-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-24 15:08 numpy-0.9.9.2675-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-25 12:40 numpy-0.9.9.2677-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-26 23:32 numpy-0.9.9.2691-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-28 02:38 numpy-0.9.9.2696-py2.4.egg-info/ -rw-r--r-- 1 fperez 31 2006-03-18 20:11 pylab.py -rw-r--r-- 1 fperez 178 2006-06-24 13:29 pylab.pyc drwxr-xr-x 20 fperez 4096 2006-06-28 11:20 scipy/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-21 21:36 scipy-0.5.0.1990-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-22 21:36 scipy-0.5.0.1998-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-24 15:15 scipy-0.5.0.1999-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-25 12:46 scipy-0.5.0.2000-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-26 23:37 scipy-0.5.0.2004-py2.4.egg-info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 fperez 4096 2006-06-28 02:48 scipy-0.5.0.2012-py2.4.egg-info/ Is it really necessary to have all that setuptools junk left around, for those of us who aren't asking for it explicitly? My personal opinions on setuptools aside, I think it's just a sane practice not to create this kind of extra baggage unless explicitly requested. I scoured my home directory for any .file which might be triggering this inadvertedly, but I can't seem to find any, so I'm going to guess this is somehow being caused by numpy's own setup. If it's my own mistake, I'll be happy to be shown how to coexist peacefully with setuptools. Since this also affects user code (I think via f2py or something internal to numpy, since all I'm calling is f2py in my code), I really think it would be nice to clean it. Opinions? f Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
