[Numpy-discussion] Setuptools leftover junk (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 14:32:15 EDT 2006

Fernando Perez wrote:

Is it really necessary to have all that setuptools junk left around, for those of us who aren't asking for it explicitly? My personal opinions on setuptools aside, I think it's just a sane practice not to create this kind of extra baggage unless explicitly requested.

I scoured my home directory for any .file which might be triggering this inadvertedly, but I can't seem to find any, so I'm going to guess this is somehow being caused by numpy's own setup. If it's my own mistake, I'll be happy to be shown how to coexist peacefully with setuptools. Since this also affects user code (I think via f2py or something internal to numpy, since all I'm calling is f2py in my code), I really think it would be nice to clean it.

numpy.distutils uses setuptools if it is importable in order to make sure that the two don't stomp on each other. It's probable that that test could probably be done with Andrew Straw's method:

if 'setuptools' in sys.modules: have_setuptools = True from setuptools import setup as old_setup else: have_setuptools = False from distutils.core import setup as old_setup

Tested patches welcome.

-- Robert Kern

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