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Wheel creation still has sharp edges, but we plan to fix that over the next weeks/months. Unless you're in a hurry I would recommend to wait for a bit till we've tested everything for SciPy.

Thanks, yeah we would probably wait for SciPy to actually make a release with meson support and wheels built with meson. Also, wish you a happy new year 🎉 .

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You too, happy new year!

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I have absolutely no opinion on this topic, because I have never used Meson. Having two build systems to maintain seems a bad idea to me, however.

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Having two build systems to maintain seems a bad idea to me, however.

Indeed yes, meson is so new to python, so we can't use it to create wheels. But still has its own advantages though. I would only do it when we absolutely need it.

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I think this would help a lot. Let me see if I can build wheels from meson itself. If I can do that this would be the best approach in long run.
This is mainly because builds started to fail today, and I got a feel that this won't happen if we are using meson. Let's see. We may be some the early adoptors of meson as a build system for a python project, but that's fine.

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I am planing to implement this in #48.

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Feels like there are lot of things that are not going to work with this setup, so I think I am not going to do that.

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Looks like scipy has moved to Meson now. scipy/scipy#14847

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Wheel creation still has sharp edges, but we plan to fix that over the next weeks/months. Unless you're in a hurry I would recommend to wait for a bit till we've tested everything for SciPy.

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