On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 6:40 PM Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net> wrote:
> 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. > The conclusion of most people who do know that codebase is that you can't fix it through evolutionary design. It needs to be redone from the ground up, and few people are interested in doing that work. David > > > 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 >
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