[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.6.1 release candidate 3

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 16:12, Christoph Gohlke <cgohlke at uci.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I tested rc3. It looks good, except that on win-amd64 whenever numpy is
> > imported, a 'Forcing DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1' is printed from line 377 in
> > misc_util.py. Hence some tests of other packages fail.
> >
> > This is due to a recent change:
> > <
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/025c8c77bb1e633ea6e8a0cb929528b1fbe85efc
> >
> >
> > Now every time numpy is imported, numpy.distutils is also imported. Is
> > this necessary or can the import of distutils be deferred?
>
> The get_shared_lib_extension() call could be deferred to inside
> load_library() in ctypeslib.py, yes.
>
> This is fixed now.

Ralf
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