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| author | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> | 2015-12-29 17:24:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> | 2016-01-16 12:18:26 +0100 |
| commit | 4b43d20fec0eda4a8f02e843b3e6e454bb243f49 (patch) | |
| tree | be091114f13246da8f82da3df47a91ab8ddfd364 /doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst | |
| parent | 99e99e90db4c73a6baae178879937f4baebd3241 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-4b43d20fec0eda4a8f02e843b3e6e454bb243f49.tar.gz | |
BUG: fix TravisCI test issues when using setuptools unconditionally.
Also remove all mentions of setupegg.py from the documentation.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst b/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst index 0fb5a666d..baf8972cd 100644 --- a/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst +++ b/doc/source/dev/development_environment.rst @@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ test and use your changes (in ``.py`` files), by simply restarting the interpreter. Note that another way to do an inplace build visible outside the repo base dir -is with ``python setup.py develop``. This doesn't work for NumPy, because -NumPy builds don't use ``setuptools`` by default. ``python setupegg.py -develop`` will work though. +is with ``python setup.py develop``. The difference is that this instead of +adjusting ``PYTHONPATH``, this installs a ``.egg-link`` file into your +site-packages as well as adjusts ``easy-install.pth`` there, so its a more +permanent (and magical) operation. Other build options |