On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:28 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 27, 2015 6:08 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >
>> > What's the equivalent of
>> > python setup.py build_ext --inplace
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>> It's
>>     python setup.py build_ext --inplace
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>> ;-)
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> Ok, Sorry, I read now the small print and the issue.
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> Sounds reasonable, given we can `force` our way out.
>
> (If the reason to run to pip is a misspelled dev version number, then it
> looks like a hammer to me.)
>

That's not the reason. A main reason is that we want reliable uninstall of
numpy, as explained in the initial post. We also want to avoid as many
other broken parts of setuptools/easy_install as possible.

Ralf
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