On Apr 1, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
We could just ship all numpy's extension modules in the same directory if we wanted. It would be pretty easy to stick some code at the top of numpy/__init__.py to load them from numpy/all_dlls/ and then slot them into the appropriate places in the package namespace.
I like this, and it could play well with wheels and virtualenv. (which reminds me -- looking at what Anaconda does may be instructive)
Of course scipy and numpy will still both have to ship BLAS etc., and so I guess it will get loaded at least twice in *any* binary install
Since scipy has a strict dependency on numpy, and the same people are maintaining the builds, couldn't scipy use the libs provided by numpy? ( maybe adding more) -Chris