On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > A question for any packaging gurus out there, should NumPy have a > *.dist-info <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/> directory? I note > that currently we have a *.egg-info directory. > Those are both autogenerated, we don't have those in the repo. The current state of our packaging is fine in that respect. > I also have a question as to what role setuptools should have going > forward. Should we still rely on them, or has pip matured to the degree > that we no longer need it. Note that we will only be supporting Python >= > 3.5 in the near future. > Pip is not a build tool, it invokes setuptools. The only viable alternative to setuptools at the moment is scikit-build. But I'm not in a hurry to switch, I'd rather try scikit-build on less critical packages than numpy first. Cheers, Ralf > Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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