On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Charles R Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Jason McCampbell < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry for the late reply... I missed this thread. Thanks to Ilan for >> pointing it out. A variety of comments below... >> >> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Charles R Harris< >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just wondering if this is temporary or the intention is to change the >>> build process? I also note that the *.h files in libndarray are not complete >>> and a *lot* of trailing whitespace has crept into the files. >> >> >> For the purposes of our immediate project the intent is to use autoconf >> since it's widely available and makes building this part Python-independent >> and easier than working it into both distutils and numscons. Going forward >> it's certainly open to discussion. >> >> > Yes, maintaining multiple build systems is a hassle. I'm wondering if we > shouldn't remove the scons stuff and stick with distutils until we > definitely decide there is a better way. > Why would you want to remove scons before we settle on a final new way of doing things? It's not that much effort to maintain as far as I'm aware, and more useful (at least to me) than distutils. I don't see a reason not to keep it until we have something that's actually better (hopefully bento). Ralf
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