On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Updating this list for comments made after I sent it and now that I've looked in more detail at what the less common commands do: > So if/when we accept the proposal in this thread, I'm thinking we should > make a bunch of changes at once: > - always use setuptools (this is a new dependency) > - error on ``python setup.py install`` > (removed the item about setup_requires, relevant for scipy but not numpy) > - error on ``python setup.py clean`` (saying "use `git clean -xdf` (or > -Xdf ...) instead") > - change ``python setup.py --help`` to first show numpy-specific stuff > before setuptools help info > - update all our install docs > - error on ``python setup.py upload`` (saying "use `twine upload -s` instead") - error on ``python setup.py upload_docs`` - error on ``python setup.py easy_install`` (I'm not joking, that exists) - error on ``python setup.py test`` (saying "use `python runtests.py` instead") - remove setupegg.py Ralf And when "pip upgrade" is released (should be soon, see > https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3194), officially change our mind and > recommend the use of install_requires/setup_requires to packages depending > on numpy. > >
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