[Neuroimaging] Installing dipy without compiling

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Julien Cohen-Adad <jcohen at polymtl.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the software we are distributing
> (https://github.com/neuropoly/spinalcordtoolbox), we would like to include
> dipy.
>
> It's fairly easy to install it automatically via pip, however the OSX
> platform requires XCode (or other compilers). Since this is a problem for
> some of our users, I was wondering if there is a good way to precompile dipy
> and include it in our package. Currently we do include some binaries (e.g.
> ANTs) that work for OSX (>10.8) and most linux distributions therefore this
> solution is very easy to support.

Actually, a pip install of dipy should download the binary wheels, and
not require a compiler.  Is that not the case?   You can always ship
the default dipy wheel (from pypi) and install that with pip during
your install phase.

Cheers,

Matthew