On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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). > > Actually, I was waiting to see if you liked scons ;) I don't use it myself but I was wondering if you used it for the releases. I agree it will be interesting to see what David comes up with, I think at the moment he likes waf as a build system to use with bento. Chuck
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