Re: [sage-devel] Exciting developments on Python packaging

2010-01-01 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Happy new year everyone! > > David Cournapeau from the NumPy project has (with good reason, IMO) > grown fed up with distutils, and is launching an effort to get the > scientific Python community off the distutils habit. (This has of co

[sage-devel] Exciting developments on Python packaging

2010-01-01 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Happy new year everyone! David Cournapeau from the NumPy project has (with good reason, IMO) grown fed up with distutils, and is launching an effort to get the scientific Python community off the distutils habit. (This has of course given rise to some controversy, but David appears to have given