I am glad that the numpy and scipy projects are still creating binary
installers for python.org python, but it is a serious problem for users of the
matplotlib binary installers that they are so difficult to find.
If a user googles for "numpy download" then the user finds this page
<http://www.numpy.org>
and the link Getting Numpy points to this page
<http://www.scipy.org/install.html>
which does not the binary installers at all.
I agree that most users should probably use Anaconda or its ilk, but I think it
would be good to mention the Mac and Windows python.org binary installers quite
prominently after that.
-- Russell
On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> On 7 August 2013 12:54, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw.edu> wrote:
> P.S. the Mac binary installer for numpy used to be easy to find. I was
> quite dismayed to find how buried it had become when I went looking for
> it a week or two ago.
>
> Is this down to the redesign of the SciPy site. If so, blame me ;-). I felt,
> and others seemed to agree, that setting up individual packages separately
> wasn't a route that we wanted to promote to newcomers, so the new site
> emphasises all-in-one installers that get you the whole Scipy Stack (numpy,
> scipy, matplotlib, etc.) in one go.
>
> Thomas
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