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

David M. Cooke cookedm at physics.mcmaster.ca
Wed Jun 28 15:10:40 EDT 2006

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

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: havesetuptools = True from setuptools import setup as oldsetup else: havesetuptools = False from distutils.core import setup as oldsetup Tested patches welcome.

Done. I've also added a 'setupegg.py' module that wraps running 'setup.py' with an import of setuptools (it's based on the one used in matplotlib).

easy_install still works, also.

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