On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:16:02PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
The official numpy installer uses some complex magic to select the right binaries based on your CPU, and this means that the official numpy "superpack" wininst files don't convert (at least I don't think they do, it's a while since I tried).
It's probably worth noting that numpy are toying around with wheels and have uploaded a number of them to PyPI for testing: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/wheels_to_test/
Currently there are only OSX wheels there (excluding the puer Python ones) and they're not available on PyPI. I assume that they're waiting for a solution for the Windows installer (a post-install script for wheels). That would give a lot more impetus to put wheels up on PyPI.
Indeed. We discussed just picking the SSE2 or SSE3 build and putting that up as a wheel, but that was deemed a not so great idea: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/56072 The Sourceforge OSX wheels are presumably not getting that much use
right now. The OSX-specific numpy wheel has been downloaded 4 times in the last week: twice on Windows and twice on Linux!
Some feedback from the people who did try those wheels would help. I asked for that on the numpy list after creating them, but didn't get much. So I haven't been in a hurry to move them over to PyPi. Ralf