[SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress on

Andrew Nelson andyfaff at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 16:40:32 EST 2018


+1 for docker instructions,  no idea at the moment.
Perhaps it's my warped view, but I regard that as a bigger learning
challenge than understanding git workflow, or writing a good commit
message.

On 25 Jan 2018 8:35 am, "Scott Sievert" <sievert.scott at gmail.com> wrote:

> 👍 to docker. I’d far prefer that if it has clear documentation. It’s far
> simpler.
>
> Scott
>
> On January 24, 2018 at 2:49:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith (njs at pobox.com) wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I've tried using AMIs for development, and local VMs are a *way*
>> better experience. Much less fiddly copying of files back and forth, better
>> latency, etc.
>>
>> It might make sense to have instructions for getting a docker-based Linux
>> development environment spun up quickly on Windows and MacOS – these are
>> really popular nowadays so there's quite a bit of infrastructure for making
>> it easy.
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2018 11:13 AM, "Stefan van der Walt" <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:23:01 -0800, Scott Sievert wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think creating an AMI would be useful. I’ve run into build issues on
>>>> my
>>>> OSX machine and turned to Amazon to build SciPy and run the tests.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This sounds like a fairly cumbersome way to develop.  We already have
>>> Travis CI to do the testing in case you really can't compile, and
>>> there's always Docker Linux images if you're in a fix.
>>>
>>> If it were up to me, we'd rather spend energy on updating the developer
>>> documentation so that each person can setup their own functioning
>>> environment.
>>>
>>> Stéfan
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