[Distutils] Platform tags for OS X binary wheels

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Nov 6, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using the Python from the Miniconda installer with py35 released last
> week.
>
>
> Then you should not expect it to be able to find compatible binary wheels
> on PyPi.
>
> Pretty much the entire point of conda is to support Numpy and friends.
> It's actually really good that it DIDN'T go and install a binary wheel.
>
> You want:
>
> conda install numpy
>
> Trust me on that :-)
>
> There are some cases where pip installing a source package into a conda
> Python is fine -- but mostly only pure-Python packages.
>

Actually, the situation with pip on OS X is quite good. This should work
with at least python.org Python, MacPython and Homebrew (using wheels):

     pip install numpy scipy matplotlib pandas scikit-image scikit-learn

Ralf
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