Hi Francois, On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:45 AM, François Bissey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am one of the guys working on getting sage as a system package in Gentoo. > Because a problem I had with mpmath (including the version shipped > in sympy) I discovered that the setup.py file for sympy includes > > import sympy > > that is it imports itself. I don't think that's right in any way. The only use > I see from the setup.py file is to get sympy's version automatically. > > There is one big problem with that. If sympy is already installed in your > system and known to your installed python the version already installed > is imported. In short if you have sympy-0.6.6 installed in your system > and you try to install sympy-0.6.7 the version reported in setup.py will be > 0.6.6. > > It is clearly what's happening at the moment with the gentoo ebuilds.
Right, I think that is clearly hackish. What is the best way to fix this? Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
