Hi, SCons can also do configuration and installation steps. David made it possible to use SCons capabilities from distutils, but you can still make a C/Fortran/Cython/Python project with SCons.
Matthieu 2010/1/16 Kurt Smith <kwmsm...@gmail.com>: > My questions here concern those familiar with configure/build/install > systems such as distutils, setuptools, scons/numscons or waf > (particularly David Cournapeau). > > I'm creating a tool known as 'fwrap' that has a component that needs > to do essentially what f2py does now -- take fortran source code and > compile it into a python extension module. It uses Cython to create > the extension module, and the current configure/build/install system > is a very kludgy monkeypatched Cython.distutils and numpy.distutils > setup.py script. The setup.py script works for testing on my system > here, but for going prime time, I dread using it. David has made his > critiques of distutils known for scientific software, and I agree. > What's the best alternative? > > More specifically: what are the pros/cons between waf and > scons/numscons for configure/build/install of a > Fortran-C-Cython-Python project? > > Is scons capable of handling the configure and install stages, or is > it only a build system? As I understand it, numscons is called from > distutils; distutils handles the configure/install stages. > Scons/numscons have more fortran support that waf, from what I can > see. The main downside of using scons is that I'd still have to mess > around with distutils. > > It looks like waf has explicit support for all three stages, and could > be just what I'm looking for. David has a few threads on the > waf-users list about getting fortran working with waf. Has that > progressed much? I want to contribute to this, for the benefit of > scipy and my project, and to limit duplicated work. From what I > gather, the fortran configuration stuff in numscons is separated > nicely from the scon-specific stuff :-) Would it be a matter of > porting the numscons fortran stuff into waf? > > Any comments you have on using waf/scons for numerical projects would > be welcome! > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Information System Engineer, Ph.D. Blog: http://matt.eifelle.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieubrucher _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
