On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 13:03, Erik Tollerud <erik.tolle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am writing a setup.py file for a package that will use cython with > numpy integration. This of course requires the numpy header files, > which I am including by using numpy.get_includes in the setup.py file > below. The problem is for users that have not installed numpy before > installing this package. If they have setuptools installed, the > behavior I would want would be for numpy to be downloaded and then the > setup script should be able to get at the headers even if it doesn't > install numpy until after this package is installed. But that doesn't > work - I have to import numpy in the setup script, which fails if it > is not yet installed. So How can I get the behavior I want?
You can't, not without some hacks to distutils. This is a basic problem with the way setuptools uses arguments to setup() to get the dependencies. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
