I was tearing my hear out yesterday evening with trying to find out and to understand how this directories occur in the build process and what role they play:
build_doc/ doc/source/reference/generated/ The build process of the docs is rather opaque to me, so I don't know what to do with them. The question is: Do I really have to clean my working directory before doing a new build. I have problems with this because it seems that the cleaning is neither complete nor is .gitignore (see above). In pavement.py I read: @needs('clean', 'clean_bootstrap') def nuke(options): """Remove everything: build dir, installers, bootstrap dirs, etc...""" for d in [options.superpack.builddir, options.installers.releasedir]: if os.path.exists(d): shutil.rmtree(d) So :func:`nuke`, as opposed to what I was told before, also removes the installers. :func:`clean` removes build/, dist/, numpy.egg-info/, and doc/build/. :func:`clean_bootstrap` is a noop for us. None of them treats the directories listed above. I don't know if the generated docs in doc/source/reference/generated are included automatically, so that garbage from previous builds could make it into later doc builds? Further, I don't know what may dangle around what I simply don't see because it's hidden by .gitignore. E.g. what's about doc/cdoc/build? doc/numpy.scipy.org/_build? I don't have this dirs, though. I will, for now, just remove the directories listed above and hope that :func:`clean` does the rest to the extent needed, but I really have the impressions that the binary build system is rather "organic" and needs a general overhaul. A bit lost, Friedrich _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion