David Cournapeau schrieb: > Hi, > > I am a developer of numpy and scipy, and I would be interested in > helping numpy/scipy debian packages to be better on both Debian and > Ubuntu. As a user of both Debian and Ubuntu, and one of the main > developer working on build issues for numpy/scipy
while not a build issue, the modularity for an install is painful. numpy is too big (including it's dependencies) to be installed on a CD (Ubuntu live CD/alternate CD), however it is required by some other packages, which are itself not packaged in a modular way: pygtk requires for some obscure (couldn't find code using this) the multiarray extension and depends on it (although an exception is thrown at runtime if the extension is not found). while pygtk could be better packaged, you could do the same with numpy by splitting out some sub-packages. Unfortunately splitting out python subpackages is not that easy: Having numpy/core/multiarray.so in it's own binary package would require packaging python-multiarray with the files: numpy/__init__.py numpy/core/__init__.py numpy/core/multiarray.so with the __init__.py files being empty files. Installing on top of this the python-numpy package would require to replace (divert) the __init__.py files with the __init__.py files as found in numpy (packaging tools like dpkg and rpm don't allow overwriting of files without special care). Consider that I additionally might want to split out stuff only needed at runtime (splitting out distutils, tests and include) and legacy stuff (numarray, numeric), I have to add more variants of __init__.py files and maintainance becomes harder. What I really want is to be able to ship independent subpackages as it's own package. Having e.g. the multiarray extension in a subpackage seems to be worse than having it as a toplevel module or in its own namespace. Background in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309215 Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
