[Numpy-discussion] 1.8.1rc1 on sourceforge.

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Jens Nielsen <jenshnielsen at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> If we relax things too much, will we also get homebrew and macports and
>>> built-it-myself pythons, and will they work?
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>>> Not likely. On 10.7 and 10.8 python.org and system python use llvm-gcc
>>> while IIRC homebrew used clang. There's probably more differences.
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>> So the question is:
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>> If someone is running a brew python and does "pip install numpy"  will
>> pip find a binary wheel that will then not work? That would be bad, but
>> maybe not our problem -- brew users should be using brew to build numpy
>> anyway.
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"pip install numpy" will build from source, and if "pip install numpy
--use-wheel" doesn't work I guess we should fix it by documentation that in
all the obvious places.

Ralf



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> No that is not how homebrew works. Brew does not pack anything that pip
> installable: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-and-Python
> so that would be a big issue. Especially since installing numpy with pip
> and brew python just works without any problem when building from source.
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> There are unofficial brew taps (channels) with python packages but this
> not the recommended way.
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>  /Jens
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>> It would be nicer if it didn't happen, though.
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>> -CHB
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