On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:44 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Charles R Harris > > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> In the continuing proposal for cleanups, note that we currently support > >> three (3!) build systems, distutils, scons, and bento. That's a bit > much to > >> maintain when contemplating changes, and scons and bento both have > external > >> dependencies. Can we dispense with any of these? Thoughts? > > > > > > Numscons is the only one that can be dropped. I'm still using it > regularly, > > but the few things it does better than bento can be easily improved in > > bento. So if removing numscons support from master saves some developer > > hours, +1 from me. > > I think numscons was already scheduled to be dropped in 1.7 (and next > version of scipy as well) ? I am certainly in favor of dropping it as > well. > It was deprecated when we added Bento support, but we never decided on a timeline. Scipy is a different story, since Bento doesn't build it correctly the last few times I checked (there are some tickets by Pauli and me on the Bento issue list). Ralf
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