[python-uk] RaspberryPi related request for help

[Steve Holden]

Hi Andrew,

That's an interesting idea. If you aren't already considering it, I'd recommend minoconda3 to keep network traffic and build times down - as you are doubtless aware Anaconda can be pretty heavyweight, whereas miniconda is leaner, using load-on-demand.

I know that the guys at Continuum (principal developers of Anaconda) are supportive of Raspberry Pi (see for example http://continuum.io/blog/raspberry), but cross-compilation on a reasonably powerful machine (or at least a Raspberry Pi 2) would make the task more manageable.

Of course this brain dump comes to you without benefit of knowing your plans in detail. Sorry if it's all blindingly obvious.

S

On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Andrew Farrell <amfarrell at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi Carrie,
> 
> Would a solution that involves conda, a cross-platform package manager mostly used in the scientific python community be usable by the team, or would installing that be a non-starter?
> If it would be useful, I can take a crack at it this weekend.
> 
> -- Andrew
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The RaspberryPi Education team (i.e. Carrie Anne - cc'd) is having a
> problem getting a Python 3 version of smbus to work. The following links
> pretty much sum up the problem.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg08427.html
> http://procrastinative.ninja/2014/07/21/smbus-for-python34-on-raspberry/
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=22348
> 
> Put simply, does anyone have the time and knowledge to create a
> python3-smbus package for Raspbian using the instructions/details above?
> As I can tell, it's a case of following the instructions above to apply
> the patch and repackaging it. A good outcome would be a
> python3-smbus.deb package. I'm crazy busy at the moment but might try
> fixing this next week if you don't manage it first.
> 
> You may be asking yourself, "Why should I?" Well, I'm glad you asked: a
> *huge* number of children (think several million) and the education team
> (around 4) would benefit from this work.
> 
> Put simply, you'll be making a huge difference.
> 
> Here's hoping you can help.
> 
> :-)
> 
> N.
> 
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