On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 19:02, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 18:49, Gael Varoquaux >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 06:44:21PM -0500, Robert Kern wrote: >> >> It's not a setuptools issue at all. "build_ext --inplace" just doesn't >> >> install header files. >> > >> > Does that mean that python setup.py develop should be banned for numpy? >> >> No. >> >> > If so I consider it a setuptools issue: one more caveat to learn about >> > setuptools, ie the fact that setuptools develop is not reliable and can >> > lead to interested bugs without conplaining at all. >> >> IT'S NOT A SETUPTOOLS ISSUE. If you had done a "python setup.py >> build_ext --inplace" and then set your PYTHONPATH manually, you would >> have the same problem. Stop blaming setuptools for every little >> problem. Building inplace is not a setuptools feature. It's a >> distutils feature. The fact that we have header files in the package >> is a numpy feature. > > So what was Gael doing wrong? Was it the develop on this line? > > python setupegg.py develop > > I'm asking because of the upcoming release. I never use setupegg.py and I > don't know what is going on here.
The code generation logic in numpy does not know anything about "build_ext --inplace" (which is a distutils feature that develop invokes). That's it. This problem has always existed for all versions of numpy whether you use setuptools or not. The logic in numpy/core/setup.py that places the generated files needs to be fixed if you want to fix this issue. I'm testing out a fix right now. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
