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

[Matthew Brett]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Steve Waterbury
<waterbug at pangalactic.us> wrote:
> On 01/15/2016 05:19 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Steve Waterbury
>> <waterbug at pangalactic.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2016 05:07 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I attribute
>>>>> some of the conda-ignoring to "NIH" and, to some extent,
>>>>> possibly defensiveness (I would be defensive too if I had been
>>>>> working on pip as long as they had when conda came along ;).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I must say, I don't personally recognize those reasons.  For example,
>>>> I hadn't worked on pip at all before conda came along.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> By "working on pip", I was referring to *developers* of pip,
>>> not those who *use* pip for packaging things.  Are you
>>> contributing to the development of pip, or merely using it
>>> for creating packages?
>>
>>
>> Sorry - I assumed you were taking about us here on the list planning
>> to build Linux and Windows wheels.
>
>
> No, I was definitely *not* talking about those on the list
> planning to build Linux and Windows wheels when I referred to
> the folks "working on pip".  However, that said, I *completely*
> agree with Travis's remark:
>
> "The other very real downside is that these efforts to promote
> numpy as wheels further encourages people to not use the
> better solution that already exists in conda."

I think there's a distinction between 'promote numpy as wheels' and
'make numpy available as a wheel'.  I don't think you'll see much
evidence of "promotion" here - it's not really the open-source way.
I'm not quite sure what you mean about 'circling the wagons', but the
general approach of staying on course and seeing how things shake out
seems to me entirely sensible.

Cheers too,

Matthew