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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/doc/DISTUTILS.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/numpy/doc/DISTUTILS.txt b/numpy/doc/DISTUTILS.txt index d5d456683..de2c0b28e 100644 --- a/numpy/doc/DISTUTILS.txt +++ b/numpy/doc/DISTUTILS.txt @@ -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. |