On 6 February 2013 01:55, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
4) Numpy-MKL requires the Intel runtime DLLs (MKL is linked statically btw). I ship those with the installers and append the directory containing the DLLs to os.environ['PATH'] in numpy/__init__.py. This is a big no-no according to numpy developers. I don't agree. Anyway, those changes are not in the numpy source repositories.
I think you pointed out that another option is to load the dlls with ctypes -- is it much work to make that change?
5) My numpy-MKL installers are Python distutils bdist_wininst installers. That means if Python was installed for all users, installing numpy-MKL on Windows >6.0 will prompt for UAC elevation. Another no-no?
not sure about the UAC elevation -- but:
1) most folks use bdist_wininst for Windows binaries -- including the current numpy builds, and python.org python -- yes?
Even the current approach is off-limits for the few haggards out there (like me at work), who can not update numpy/scipy/anything else that requires an installation procedure (like pretty much all the bdist_wininst distributions for Windows 64 bits/Python 64 bits). The only (partial) solution I found is to install at home and bring the site-packages folder on a USB stick with me at work. Which is a bit sad overall: if I can make dozens of installers of my applications for my colleagues with InnoSetup/NSIS which do *not* require any UAC crap/elevation, what's stopping the bdist_wininst to do the same? The same holds (unfortunately) for the excellent distributions from Christoph Gohlke. The fact that Windows 64 bits/Python 64 bits UAC-free installers are pretty much non-existent in the Python world does not play very nicely with the fact that 64 bits architectures have been available for 783648660236729 years. I'd rather prefer if someone would upload to sourceforge/scipy.org/whatever a zipped folder containing numpy as it was in their site-packages directory. Now that would be a huge plus :-) Andrea. "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality." http://www.infinity77.net # ------------------------------------------------------------- # def ask_mailing_list_support(email): if mention_platform_and_version() and include_sample_app(): send_message(email) else: install_malware() erase_hard_drives() # ------------------------------------------------------------- #