On Oct 31, 2013 8:50 PM, "Tres Seaver" <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/31/2013 02:24 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > To be honest the same problems likely exists on Windows, it?s just > > less likely and the benefits of prebuilt binaries greater. > > For all platforms *except* Windows, wheels are essentially caches -- > there is no real reason to distribute them via PyPI at all, because OSx > and Linux develpoers will have tools to build them from sdists.
What if an OSX user wants to install numpy/scipy? How easy is it to do this from source (I really don't know)? Building the necessary BLAS/LAPACK libraries isn't easy on any platform. It's just easier on a linux distro when the package manager can do it for you. Oscar
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