On 02/22/2017 12:23 PM, Phil Mayers wrote:
On 22/02/17 15:00, Steve Waterbury wrote:
Have you considered the 'conda' package manager?
I've never come across it. It looks too big for me to give a quick opinion on, but I'll bear it in mind. Thanks for the pointer.
"Anaconda" is huge; conda is not. You can get conda by installing "Miniconda": https://conda.io/miniconda.html The 64-bit bash Miniconda installer for Linux, for example, is about 28 MB, and includes just Python (either 2 or 3) with conda and its dependencies, and includes pip in case you want to use a package that is not yet available in the conda package channels -- 'pip install' works in a conda environment. (The only reason to install Anaconda, which includes over 100 scientific Python packages, is if you are developing an app that requires a lot of Numpy or SciPy libraries.) Steve