On Dec 1, 2013 1:10 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 December 2013 04:15, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
2. For cross-platform handling of external binary dependencies, we recommend boostrapping the open source conda toolchain, and using that to install pre-built binaries (currently administered by the Continuum Analytics folks). Specifically, commands like the following should work on POSIX systems without needing any local build machinery, and without needing all the projects in the chain to publish wheels: "pip install conda && conda init && conda install ipython"
Hmm, this is a somewhat surprising change of direction.
Indeed it is. Can you clarify a little more how you've come to this conclusion, Nick and perhaps explain what conda is? I looked at conda some time ago and it seemed to be aimed at HPC (high performance computing) clusters which is a niche use case where you have large networks of computation nodes containing identical hardware. (unless I'm conflating it with something else). Oscar