On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 7:46 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > I'd be >>> > interested in information from anyone with experience in using such an >>> IDE >>> > and ideas of how Numpy might make using some of the common IDEs easier. >>> > >>> > Thoughts? >>> >>> I guess we could include project files for Visual Studio (and perhaps >>> Eclipse?), like Python does. But then we would need to make sure the >>> different build systems are kept in sync, and it will be a PITA for those >>> who do not use Windows and Visual Studio. It is already bad enough with >>> Distutils and Bento. I, for one, would really prefer if there only was >>> one >>> build process to care about. One should also note that a Visual Studio >>> project is the only supported build process for Python on Windows. So >>> they >>> are not using this in addition to something else. >>> >>> Eclipse is better than Visual Studio for mixed Python and C development. >>> It >>> is also cross-platform. >>> >>> cmake needs to be mentioned too. It is not fully integrated with Visual >>> Studio, but better than having multiple build processes. >>> >> >> Mark chose cmake for DyND because it supported Visual Studio projects. >> OTOH, he said it was a PITA to program. >> > > I concur on that: For the 350+ packages we support at Enthought, cmake > has been a higher pain point than any other build tool (that is including > custom ones). And we only support mainstream platforms. > > But the real question for me is what does visual studio support mean ? > Does it really mean solution files ? > > I have no useful experience with Visual Studio, so don't really know, but solution files sounds like a step in the right direction. What do solution files provide? Chuck
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