<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Chris Barker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Ralf Gommers <<a href="mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com">ralf.gommers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You can argue with the exact wording,<br>
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</div>I won't argue, I'll suggest an alternative in a pull request...<br>
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> but the layout of that page is on<br>
> purpose. <a href="http://scipy.org" target="_blank">scipy.org</a> is split into two parts: (a) a SciPy Stack part, and (b)<br>
> a numpy & scipy library part. You're looking at the stack part, and the<br>
> preferred method to install that stack is a Python distribution.<br>
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</div>I'm not sure who decided that that's the "preferred" way</blockquote><div><br><a href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/3">https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/3</a><br><br></div><div>I'm sure the there mentioned scipy-user and numfocus mailing list discussions from a year ago can be found as well with a bit of searching.<br>
<br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Ralf<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">, but If we<br>
take that as a given, maybe that page is fine. However:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> If you look at the library part, the binary installers are at the top of the<br>
> page: <a href="http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/download.html</a><br>
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</div>But finding that page is not obvious. Simple usability:<br>
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I know what the heck I'm looking at -- I've been using numpy, and<br>
numeric before it for something like 15 years. But I just went to grab<br>
a new binary, and had a heck of a time finding it -- I'm pretty sure I<br>
ended up remembering that the downloads are on sourceforge and looking<br>
there. And I've been teaching lately, and my students are having<br>
trouble finding them, too.<br>
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If you google "numpy" you get the <a href="http://numpy.org" target="_blank">numpy.org</a> page as the first hit<br>
<br>
If you go to <a href="http://numpy.org" target="_blank">numpy.org</a>, there is a "geting numpy" link, that takes you to:<br>
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<a href="http://www.scipy.org/install.html" target="_blank">http://www.scipy.org/install.html</a><br>
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There is also a "Installing NumPy and SciPy" link that takes you to<br>
that same page.<br>
<br>
There is a link to the sourceforge page further won, but no indication<br>
of why you would want to go there.<br>
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So I still have no idea how I would find:<br>
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<a href="http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/download.html</a><br>
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So I submit that we could fix this up a bit....<br>
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(off to do a pull request)<br>
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