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authoredschofield <edschofield@localhost>2006-04-19 11:26:00 +0000
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Added warning about config.add_headers to DISTUTILS.txt
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@@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ in writing setup scripts:
``<prefix>/include/pythonX.X/<config.name.replace('.','/')>/``
directory. If ``files`` item is a tuple then it's first argument
specifies the installation suffix relative to
- ``<prefix>/include/pythonX.X/`` path.
+ ``<prefix>/include/pythonX.X/`` path. This is a Python distutils
+ method; its use is discouraged for NumPy and SciPy in favour of
+ ``config.add_data_files(*files)``.
+ ``config.add_scripts(*files)`` --- prepend ``files`` to ``scripts``
list. Scripts will be installed under ``<prefix>/bin/`` directory.