Joris De Ridder wrote: > > Thanks. I've a few questions concerning the objections against ctypes. > It's part of the Python standard library, brand new from v2.5, and it > allows creating extensions. Disregarding it, requires therefore good > arguments, I think. I trust you that there are, but I would like to > understand them better. For ctypes your extensions needs to be > compiled as a shared library, but as numpy is moving towards Scons > Please note that a full move toward scons is not likely to happen soon. It will have to be the default build system for both numpy and scipy, unless someone hacks a ctypes-based extension builder (e.g dynamically loaded library builder) for distutils.
Another issue is the detection of a 3rd party library to be usable by ctypes: this should be easy to do in distutils, and not too difficult for scons. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
