On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:09 AM, David <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
On 06/01/2010 12:15 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Charles Vejnar <ce@vejnar.eu <mailto:ce@vejnar.eu>> wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to install Scipy with easy_install and it seems that downloading from Sourceforge is no longer possible (Sourceforge no longer gives a direct link to the .tar.gz file) which makes the install fail.
Would it be possible to always upload the latest Scipy tarball to
PyPI ?
It's possible, but because that encourages the use of easy_install/pip it would probably give more problems than that it helps. Just today there was a thread on numpy-discussion about pip failing and standard "python setup.py install" fixing the problem. easy_install is just as problematic as pip, if not more so.
Unfortunately, people will always use those half broken tools. I think we should at least put the tarballs - I also used to put a simple executable (result of bdist_wininst) so that easy_install numpy works on windows.
OK, I'll do the same then.
Ralf