On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:36:39 -0700 Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > - Packages with non-standard non-python dependencies: libhdf5, lapack, > BLAS, fortran(!) -- this is where the nightmare really is. I suspect most > folks on this list will say that this is "Scipy Problem", and indeed, > that's where the biggest issues are, and where systems like conda have > grown up to address this. > > But at this point, I think it's really sad that the community has become > fractured -- if folks start out with "I want to do scientific computing", > then they get pointed to Enthought Canopy or Anaconda, and all is well > (until they look for standard web development packages -- though that's > getting better). But if someone starts out as a web developer, and is all > happy with the PyPA stack (virtualenv, pip, etc...), then someone suggests > they put some Bokeh plotting in their web site, or need to do > some analytics on HDF5 files, or any number of things well supported by > Python, but NOT by pip/wheel -- they are kind of stuck.
Indeed, that's the main issue here. Eventually some people will want to use llvmlite or Numba in an environment where there's also a web application serving stuff, or who knows other combinations. > PS: Personally, after banging my head against this for years, > I've committed to conda for the moment -- working to get conda to better > support the wide range of python packages. I haven't tried it on Linux, but > it does exist and works well for some folks. Due to the fact Linux binary wheels don't exist, conda is even more useful on Linux... Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
