[SciPy-dev] swig dependency

[Jarrod Millman]

On 10/4/07, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jarrod Millman wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry, I misunderstood how SWIG was being used (this is my first time
using it).  So just to be clear, it sounds like we will need to
include the generated files just like sparsetools does.  Until we
resolve this and a few other issues, Chris and I have disabled nifti
builds.

Thanks,

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