[SciPy-dev] Compiling pysparse from the sandbox

[Nils Wagner]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:46:37 +0100
  "Ed Schofield" <edschofield@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/18/07, Daniel Wheeler <daniel.wheeler@nist.gov> 
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>>> I think the name changed from CONTIGUOUS to 
>>>NPY_CONTIGUOUS (or
>>> NPY_C_CONTIGUOUS if you want to be a little more 
>>>explicit).  Or try
>>> including numpy/noprefix.h instead of whatever it is 
>>>including.
>>> That's apparently a compatibility header.
>>
>>> So is this pysparse in the sandbox the same pysparse as 
>>>here?
>>
>> Probably not. Pysparse at sourceforge is being 
>>maintained and is at release
>> 1.0. It's been updated
>> to use numpy with the numpy/noprefix.h method mentioned 
>>above. Use cvs
>> rather than 1.0 as 1.0
>> doesn't see the numpy header files.
> 
> That's interesting to hear; I haven't been following 
>PySparse
> development for a while. Around the time of the Numeric 
>-> SciPy core
> transition, I took a snapshot of PySparse, patched it to 
>compile with
> NumPy and added it to the sandbox, with the idea of 
>using it as a
> basis for improvements to (or even a re-write of) the 
>scipy.sparse
> module. But we decided to keep the existing scipy.sparse 
>matrix types,
> and when I came to add the new list-based lil_matrix 
>type, it turned
> out to be easier to design it from scratch rather than 
>port PySparse's
> ll_mat.c code to Python.
> 
> So I see no reason to keep the pysparse snapshot in the 
>sandbox any
> longer. I've actually been meaning for a while to 
>propose that we
> delete it from the tree...
> 
> -- Ed
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Hi Ed,

Just now I have installed the latest pysparse via cvs, but
I need some advice to improve my local setup.py.

I have already installed BLAS/LAPACK,ATLAS  and
UMFPACK from source.

So, who can send me a customized setup.py for pysparse ?

Nils