[SciPy-dev] Release going to happen tonight.

[Travis Oliphant]

Robert Kern wrote:

>Travis Oliphant wrote:
>  
>
>>With Pearu's commits, I'm about ready to make a beta release.  Now,
>>where do I place it?
>>
>>I'll probably put it on the sourceforge site as well as make a link on
>>numeric.scipy.org.
>>
>>What do you all think?
>>    
>>
>
>We should make a final decision about where the headers need to go. I
>floated the idea a few days ago to install headers into the package
>itself instead of having them installed to the $prefix by the
>install_headers command. Some people won't be able to install to the
>main Python include directory because they don't have root access.
>PythonEggs don't have the ability to install headers either. AFAICT,
>only Numeric, numarray, and ScientificPython do this. We should take the
>opportunity now to stop this practice.
>
>There is now a function scipy.base.get_scipy_include():
>
>def get_scipy_include():
>    """Return the directory in the package that contains the scipy/*.h
>header
>    files.
>
>    Extension modules that need to compile against scipy.base should use
>this
>    function to locate the appropriate include directory. Using distutils:
>
>      import scipy
>      Extension('extension_name', ...
>                include_dirs=[scipy.get_scipy_include()])
>    """
>    import os
>    dir, fn = os.path.split(__file__)
>    return os.path.join(dir, 'include')
>  
>

Shouldn't this be in scipy.distutils?

-Travis