Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: split numpy.distutils into it's own package

2020-10-25 Thread Matti Picus
On 10/25/20 5:39 PM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: Sorry for not being clear, when I was discussing modifications to scipy I was referring to the specific use case of cross-compilation. The goal is that existing native builds would not break backwards compatibility. To that end, there's a package redi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: split numpy.distutils into it's own package

2020-10-25 Thread Dustin Spicuzza
On 10/25/20 11:39 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: > On 10/25/20 5:23 AM, Matti Picus wrote: >> On 10/25/20 10:46 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: >>> I took a first stab at it, and... surprise, surprise, there were a few >>> more warts than I had originally expected in my initial survey. The >>> biggest unex

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: split numpy.distutils into it's own package

2020-10-25 Thread Dustin Spicuzza
On 10/25/20 5:23 AM, Matti Picus wrote: > > On 10/25/20 10:46 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: >> I took a first stab at it, and... surprise, surprise, there were a few >> more warts than I had originally expected in my initial survey. The >> biggest unexpected result is that numpy.f2py would need to als

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: split numpy.distutils into it's own package

2020-10-25 Thread Kevin Sheppard
NumPy could take an explicit runtime dependency on numpy-distutils so that the code would be technically in a different repo bit would always be available through NumPy. Eventually this could be removed as a runtime dependency. Kevin On Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 09:23 Matti Picus wrote: > > On 10/25/

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: split numpy.distutils into it's own package

2020-10-25 Thread Matti Picus
On 10/25/20 10:46 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: I took a first stab at it, and... surprise, surprise, there were a few more warts than I had originally expected in my initial survey. The biggest unexpected result is that numpy.f2py would need to also be a toplevel package. I did get the refactor c

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: split numpy.distutils into it's own package

2020-10-25 Thread Dustin Spicuzza
On 10/24/20 2:59 PM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: > Since this initial feedback seems mostly positive, I'll go ahead and > take a stab at refactoring it and make a PR potentially this weekend. > It should be fairly straightforward. > > Dustin I took a first stab at it, and... surprise, surprise, ther