On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Andreas Hilboll <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi, > >> > >> I just noticed that there's a PPA for NumPy/SciPy on Launchpad: > >> > >> > >> https://launchpad.net/~scipy/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Escipy/+archive/ppa> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Escipy/+archive/ppa> > >> > >> However, it's painfully outdated. Does anyone know of its status? Is it > >> 'official'? > No, it's not. All kinds of distribution mechanisms are dependent on the initiatives of community members; the only things that can be considered official (in the sense that they're the main repo or part of a release) is the Github repo and the pypi and SourceForge tarballs/binaries. > Are there any plans in revitalizing it, possibly with adding > >> other projects from the "scipy universe"? Is there help needed? > >> > >> Many questions, but possibly quite easy to answer ... > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Andreas. > > Hi, > > > > do you try to install from this PPA? I am using ubuntu 11.04, it's not > > difficult possibly to install by pip. but this is the only thing I know. > > > > chao > > Hi, I know it's easy to install by pip. But I know too many people who > don't want to care about installing software 'by hand'. For those, it > would be good to have a PPA with the current stable releases of numpy, > scipy, matplotlib, ipython, pandas, statsmodels, you name them. Many > desktops in research environments might be running Ubuntu LTS, and in two > years, noone will want to be stuck with numpy 1.6 without the chance to > easily (and for a whole network) be up-to-date. > > To summarize: I think it would be a valuable addition to the numpy > community if there were such an up-to-date PPA. > Sounds good. Anyone could maintain such a PPA. Ralf
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