[SciPy-User] setuptools messing with sdists using numpy.distutils and Fortran libraries

[Juan Luis Cano]

On 12/23/2013 09:39 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Juan Luis Cano <juanlu001 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:juanlu001 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I'm trying to build a Python package using some Fortran libraries, and
>     started using also setuptools at a certain point because I wanted to
>     take advantage of "setup.py develop". However, despite being
>     stated that
>     one should just import setuptools before numpy.distutils imports:
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>     http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2013-September/067784.html
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>     I found that "setup.py sdist" works differently whether setuptools has
>     been imported or not - i.e. not the same files get excluded or
>     included.
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>     In particular, I had problems with the .pyf files of a Fortran
>     library I
>     created, included using config.add_extension. Without setuptools it
>     works, and the .pyf files get included, but with setuptools they are
>     missing. This results in failed installations later on.
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> You could special case "develop" in this manner to not have setuptools 
> mess up other commands: 
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/setup.py#L205
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>     In case you want the specific example, here is the diff between the
>     working and non-working setup.py:
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>     https://github.com/Pybonacci/poliastro/compare/0.1.x...master#diff-29
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>     The use of setuptools is not crucial for this project, but I'm
>     interested in knowing what's going on here.
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> Both setuptools and numpy.distutils monkeypatch the behavior of 
> distutils commands, so there's very little logic to what happens. 
> Different commands typically break in different ways. You can try to 
> debug it to understand but if you value your sanity, you should try to 
> avoid that:)

Yeah, at least for today I value it :) Thank you very much!

Cheers

Juan Luis
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