On 06/09/2020 11:28, Ralf Gommers wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 9:50 AM Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net> > This may be bigger endeavor, but wouldn't it be possible to extend > setuptools interfaces in a way that plugging in the fortran support does > not require monkey patching or accessing the implementation internals? > > Probably not, since distutils really doesn't have much of a design, or > separation between API and implementation.
I was under the impression that one of the reasons why distutils is being deprecated in favor of setuptools is to change this and evolve the code into a better form, not to just move the code around. > By the way, how is Cython affected by this? Cython also distributes an > extension to (the module formerly know as) distutils to transparently > compile extensions written in Cython. Could the efforts toward > multi-language support in distutils be coordinated with the Cython > maintainers? > > Cython.Distutils is a few hundred lines of code, numpy.distutils is > 20,000 lines of code. I don't think Cython will have much problems adapting. I'm well aware of that, however I was only referring to Fortran support here, which may be something valuable to merge upstream. And Cython also injects the support for a different language into distutils/setuptools, thus maybe a common approach could be envisioned, maybe more robust than the current one. I haven't looked at the code, though. Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
