On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Charles R Harris >> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:44 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Charles R Harris >> >> > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> >> >> In the continuing proposal for cleanups, note that we currently >> >> >> support >> >> >> three (3!) build systems, distutils, scons, and bento. That's a bit >> >> >> much to >> >> >> maintain when contemplating changes, and scons and bento both have >> >> >> external >> >> >> dependencies. Can we dispense with any of these? Thoughts? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Numscons is the only one that can be dropped. I'm still using it >> >> > regularly, >> >> > but the few things it does better than bento can be easily improved >> >> > in >> >> > bento. So if removing numscons support from master saves some >> >> > developer >> >> > hours, +1 from me. >> >> >> >> I think numscons was already scheduled to be dropped in 1.7 (and next >> >> version of scipy as well) ? I am certainly in favor of dropping it as >> >> well. >> > >> > >> > Is bento documented anywhere or can you commit to keeping it working for >> > numpy? >> >> Both. Doc: http://bento.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and tests >> (https://travis-ci.org/cournape/Bento) are continuously run/updated. > > > That's bento's own test suite only - we should add a numpy build with Bento > for at least Python 2.7 to the numpy Travis config.
Definitely. I was merely answering Chuck's worries that bento may just be a one man, undocumented, bitrotted thing :) David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
