New build system

[S. Chris Colbert]

Considering that we are vying for adoption, I would hold off adopting a 
new build system until it (or we) become more popular.

On 06/09/2010 04:40 AM, St�fan van der Walt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> David Cournapeau's Bento build system (a replacement for distutils) is
> maturing nicely.  I'd like to switch to it eventually, but for now
> I've simply put all the necessary changes in the 'bento' branch.
> Bento is entirely self-contained, so just check out the branch and do:
>
> make bento
>
> It keeps track of changes to C files, so incremental builds work.
> Commands are provided for generating the docs, running tests, etc.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Regards
> St�fan
>