[SciPy-Dev] build systems - removing numscons support

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sun May 5 06:04:29 EDT 2013


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I spent some time fixing building with Bento:
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/2447. Try it out if you regularly build
> scipy - for me it's 5x faster than a distutils build, and the difference is
> even larger when disregarding the Cythonizing step.
>
> We still have support for Numscons, although it has been broken for several
> months. Supporting three build systems is at least one too many, so I
> propose to remove the numscons support. Any objections?

+1

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Robert Kern



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