[SciPy-dev] swig dependency

[Robert Kern]

Jarrod Millman wrote:
> On 10/4/07, Christopher Hanley <chanley at stsci.edu> wrote:
>> I see that the latest revision of scipy (r3410) now has a swig
>> dependency.  What version of swig is now required?  I am unable to build
>> scipy with swig version 1.1 (Patch 5).
> 
> SciPy has required SWIG for at least a year. 

That's not entirely true. The UMFPACK bindings are optional, and sparsetools has
the generated files checked in so that no one except those modifying those
wrappers needs to have SWIG installed. Checking generated files into source
control is somewhat icky, but so is having to answer this question over and over.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 an underlying truth."
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