[Nipy-devel] distutils, numpy, weave

[Jonathan Taylor]

I was wondering if any one out there knows much about numpy.distutils vs.
distutils, and if there is anything there we should be using.

Rather vague, I know.

The most concrete reason I ask is that I add some weave code in 
nifti1.py to
build a small extension module for computing the quaternion, offsets and 
pixdim from a 4x4 matrix, and I would like to add this to "setup.py" in 
some way.

Right now, it gets built by try/except catching an ImportError...... see 
line 1044 here

http://projects.scipy.org/neuroimaging/ni/browser/ni/trunk/lib/neuroimaging/image/formats/nifti1.py

This could fail if the neuroimaging package is installed by a sysadmin 
but nifti1 is never imported....

I suppose in this case it could be made "inline" but I just wondered in 
general if there
is a nice way to make small weave extensions and add them to the overall 
"setup.py".....



-- Jonathan

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