On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Robert McLeod <robbmcl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> 4.) I took a stab at converting from distutils to setuputils but this >> seems challenging with numpy as a dependency. I wonder if anyone has tried >> monkey-patching so that setup.py build_ext uses distutils and then pass the >> interpreter.pyd/so as a data file, or some other such chicanery? >> > > Not sure what you mean, since numpexpr already uses setuptools: > https://github.com/pydata/numexpr/blob/master/setup.py#L22. What is the > real goal you're trying to achieve? > > This monkeypatching is a bad idea: > https://github.com/robbmcleod/numexpr/blob/numexpr-3.0/setup.py#L19. Both > setuptools and numpy.distutils already do that, and that's already one too > many. So you definitely don't want to add a third place.... You can use the > -j (--parallel) flag to numpy.distutils instead, see > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/user/building.html#parallel-builds > > Ralf > Dear Ralf, Yes, this appears to be a bad idea. I was just trying to think about if I could use the more object-oriented approach that I am familiar with in setuptools to easily build wheels for Pypi. Thanks for the comments and links; I didn't know I could parallelize the numpy build. Robert -- Robert McLeod, Ph.D. Center for Cellular Imaging and Nano Analytics (C-CINA) Biozentrum der Universität Basel Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel Work: +41.061.387.3225 robert.mcl...@unibas.ch robert.mcl...@bsse.ethz.ch <robert.mcl...@ethz.ch> robbmcl...@gmail.com
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