On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We need to be able to run both projects concurrently on the same grid. >> Setuptools + eggs allows this to happen. If we used .exe installers then >> we could only have one single version of any given dependancy at any >> time and so we would not be able to run the two projects in paralell. > > I think you are misunderstanding my suggestion - it would be strictly > equivalent to installing an egg, because easy_install can build an egg > from the .exe automatically. Numpy is installed as an egg from the > .exe if you use easy_install. In particular you can use parallel > multi-versions.
For the record, Fadhley could use this method and reported privately that it worked as expected once he extracted the bdist_wininst .exe from the superpack, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
