[Numpy-discussion] Should I use pip install numpy in linux?

[Travis Oliphant]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> >>> Also, you have the problem that there is one PyPi -- so where do you
> put
> >>> your nifty wheels that depend on other binary wheels? you may need to
> fork
> >>> every package you want to build :-(
> >>
> >> Is this a real problem or a theoretical one? Do you know of some
> >> situation where this wheel to wheel dependency will occur that won't
> >> just be solved in some other way?
> >
> > It's real -- at least during the whole bootstrapping period. Say I
> > build a nifty hdf5 binary wheel -- I could probably just grab the name
> > "libhdf5" on PyPI. So far so good. But the goal here would be to have
> > netcdf and pytables and GDAL and who knows what else then link against
> > that wheel. But those projects are all supported be different people,
> > that all have their own distribution strategy. So where do I put
> > binary wheels of each of those projects that depend on my libhdf5
> > wheel? _maybe_ I would put it out there, and it would all grow
> > organically, but neither the culture nor the tooling support that
> > approach now, so I'm not very confident you could gather adoption.
>
> I don't think there's a very large amount of cultural work - but some
> to be sure.
>
> We already have the following on OSX:
>
> pip install numpy scipy matplotlib scikit-learn scikit-image pandas h5py
>
> where all the wheels come from pypi.  So, I don't think this is really
> outside our range, even if the problem is a little more difficult for
> Linux.
>
> > Even beyond the adoption period, sometimes you need to do stuff in
> > more than one way -- look at the proliferation of channels on
> > Anaconda.org.
> >
> > This is more likely to work if there is a good infrastructure for
> > third parties to build and distribute the binaries -- e.g.
> > Anaconda.org.
>
> I thought that Anaconda.org allows pypi channels as well?
>

It does:   http://pypi.anaconda.org/

-Travis


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