[SciPy-Dev] build systems - removing numscons support

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:55 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> I thought the decision was already made to remove it ! So +1 from me as
> well


That was for numpy. PR: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/2450

Ralf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/attachments/20130505/253bb5b1/attachment.html>