[Numpy-discussion] Proposal to remove the Bento build.

2015-08-18 Thread Charles R Harris
Hi All, . I'm bringing up this topic again on account of the discussion at https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/6199. The proposal is to stop (trying) to support the Bento build system for Numpy and remove it. Votes and discussion welcome. Along the same lines, Pauli has suggested removing the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to remove the Bento build.

2015-08-18 Thread David Cournapeau
If everybody wants to remove bento, we should remove it. Regarding single file builds, why would it help for static builds ? I understand it would make things slightly easier to have one .o per extension, but it does not change the fundamental process as the exported symbols are the same in the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to remove the Bento build.

2015-08-18 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:15 PM, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote: If everybody wants to remove bento, we should remove it. FWIW, I don't really have an opinion either way on bento versus distutils, I just feel that we shouldn't maintain two build systems unless we're actively planning