Howdy, today's exercise with f2py left some lessons learned, mostly thanks to Robert's excellent help, for which I'm grateful.
I'd like to recap here what we have, mostly to decide what changes (if any) should go into numpy to make the experience less "interesting" for future users: - Remove the f2py_options flag from numpy.distutils.extension.Extension? If so, do options like '--debug_capi' get correctly passed via setup.cfg? This flag is potentially very confusing, because only *some* f2py options get actually set this way, while others need to be set in calls to config_fc. - How to properly set the compiler options in a setup.py file? Robert suggested the setup.cfg file, but this doesn't get picked up unless config_fc is explicitly called by the user: ./setup.py config_fc etc... This is perhaps a distutils problem, but I don't know if we can solve it more cleanly. It seems to me that it should be possible to provide a setup.py file that can be used simply as ./setup.py install (with the necessary setup.cfg file sitting next to it). I'm thinking here of what we need to do when showing how 'easy' these tools are for scientists migrating from matlab, for example. Obscure, special purpose incantations tend to tarnish our message of ease :) - Should the 'instead' word be removed from the f2py docs regarding the use of .pyf sources? It appears to be a mistake, which threw at least me for a loop for a while. - Why does f2py in the source tree have *both* a doc/ and a docs/ directory? It's really confusing to see this. f2py happens to be a very important tool, not just because scipy couldn't build without it, but also to position python as a credible integration language for scientific work. So I hope we can make using it as easy and robust as is technically feasible. Cheers, f _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
