On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Fadhley Salim <fadhley.sa...@uk.calyon.com> wrote: > I agree with Robert > > There should be no reason on earth why you cannot use an Egg to package > Numpy.
Actually, there is, although it is not really an egg deficiency. We use ATLAS as blas/lapack, and ATLAS binaries are tuned for one architecture. So we have a so called superpack binary installer which contains several binaries, selects the best one on a given computer, and installs it. > Setuptools is not fragile, it's very stable but requires a bit of > understanding. setuptools and eggs are different things - the egg file format is fine, and should not cause any instability whatsoever compared to a normal binary install. David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
