Hi, Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net) had an very interesting article on KDE's switch on June 19, 2006 by Alexander Neundorf:
http://lwn.net/Articles/187923/ The full article is at: http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/ This should be freely available to all. Also, the current US Linux Magazine (June or July 2006 ) has a small feature on cmake as well. Regards Bruce On 7/1/06, Albert Strasheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Chuck > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:numpy- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles R Harris > > Sent: 01 July 2006 19:57 > > To: Robert Kern > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Time for beta1 of NumPy 1.0 > > > > All, > > > > This is bit off topic, but a while ago there were some complaints about > > the usefulness of distutils. I note that KDE has gone over to using cmake > > after trying scon. I am not familiar with cmake, but perhaps someone here > > knows more and can comment on its suitability. > > CMake definately warrants investigation, but I think SCons might be a better > way to go. I think it would make it easier to reuse large parts of the > existing build code (e.g. conv_template.py could be converted into a SCons > builder without too much effort). Reusing parts of distutils and setuptools > would also be easier if the new tool is somehow Python-aware. > > I think the main problem with distutils in the NumPy context is that it was > never designed to build C/Fortran code over so many platforms with to many > possible build configurations. python setup.py install works pretty well, > but any kind of non-default configuration can become a bit hairy, despite > the excellent work on NumPy extensions to distutils. > > I'd like to take a stab at doing something with SCons in a few weeks' time. > Does anybody want to brainstorm on some ideas for what is needed from a > better build system for NumPy? Maybe a wiki page? > > Regards, > > Albert > > > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion > 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
