[Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard
David Warde-Farley
dwf at cs.toronto.edu
Fri Oct 23 05:02:45 EDT 2009
On 21-Oct-09, at 11:01 AM, Ryan May wrote:
> ~/.local was added to *be the standard* for easily installing python
> packages in your user account. And it works perfectly on the other
> major OSes, no twiddling of paths anymore.
I've had a lot of headaches with ~/.local on Ubuntu, actually.
Apparently Ubuntu has some crazy 'dist-packages' thing going on in
parallel to site-packages and /usr and /usr/local and its precedence
is unclear. virtualenv also doesn't know jack about it (speaking of
which, there's no way to control precedence of ~/.local with
virtualenv, so I can't use virtualenv to override ~/.local if I want
to treat "~/.local as the new site-packages").
Packaging is still more pain than it should be on *any* platform, I
think, and I doubt we'll have it all sorted out until somewhere in the
mid-to-upper 3.x's. :(
David
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