For the case in question, having the student set up his or her personal
computer to work for the class (dual boot/Ubuntu) would probably be fine.
Long term, though, I don't think Vista can be written off as a supported
platform.  If you're forced by your system admin to use it in a work
environment AND you need Numpy, ignoring it isn't the answer.
I'm not complaining (It would take me longer than Vista's commercial life to
shoehorn a solution to this problem myself).  I am however following this
thread to see how it plays out.  This way I can at least start planning
ahead in the work environment (I DO have FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and Windows XP
installed on my home computers).
My 2 cents.
Carl T.

On 5/26/07, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On 5/24/07, Ryan Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to use Numpy/Scipy for a class I am teaching this summer.
> I have one student running Vista.  Is there an installer that works
> for Vista?  Running the exe file from webpage gives errors about not
> being able to create various folders and files.  I think this is from
> Vista being very restrictive about which files and folders are
> writable.  Is anyone out there running Numpy/Scipy in Vista?  If so,
> how did you get it to work?


Install Ubuntu? ;) I've heard nothing but complaints and nasty words from
co-workers stuck with new computers and trying to use Vista as a development
platform for scientific work.

Chuck


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