Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On 10/20/07, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I > >> hope that in the end, scons will be used for numpy (for 1.1 ?), once I >> finish the conversion. >> >> I don't see situations where adding 350 Kb in the tarball can be an >> issue, so could you tell me what the problem would be ? >> > > Then if numpy is going to use scons for build itself in the near > future, then there is no problem, and including scons in numpy tarball > is good from the user side. > Just as a precision: I am the only one so far working on this (using scons instead of distutils), and no decision has been made whether it will be used at all in the future. > Just a final observation. Try to make it possible to reuse a scons > other than that included in numpy tarball. Packagers would be happy > with this. > Yes, I though about that, it would not be too difficult to handle (and scons has a simple mechanism to ensure a given version), since scons is called externally (it could be a option given to the scons command inside distutils, for example).
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