On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Charles R Harris > >> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:44 AM, 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. > >> > > >> > > >> > Is bento documented anywhere or can you commit to keeping it working > for > >> > numpy? > >> > >> Both. Doc: http://bento.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and tests > >> (https://travis-ci.org/cournape/Bento) are continuously run/updated. > > > > > > That's bento's own test suite only - we should add a numpy build with > Bento > > for at least Python 2.7 to the numpy Travis config. > > Definitely. I was merely answering Chuck's worries that bento may just > be a one man, undocumented, bitrotted thing :) > > Tsk, tsk, I would never use such extreme language ;) I put up a PR expunging SCons support from numpy, could you take a look at it? There was also a file related to mingw builds on windows (in cpu_id I think) that has no bento equivalent. Chuck
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