On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Steve Waterbury <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/07/2013 05:30 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Steve Waterbury >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 04/07/2013 05:02 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: >>>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Daπid <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 7 April 2013 16:53, Happyman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> $pip install numpy # to install package "numpy" >>>> >>>> as a warning, last I checked pip did not support binary installs ... >>> >>> Guess you didn't check very recently ;) -- pip does indeed >>> support binary installs. >> >> Binary install in this case means, downloading a pre-built package >> containing .so/.dll files -- very useful if you don't have a working C >> compiler environment on the system you're installing onto. > > Point taken -- just didn't want pip to be sold short. > I'm one of those spoiled Linux people, obviously ... ;)
However, pip is really awful on Windows. If you have a virtualenv and you use --upgrade, it wants to upgrade all package dependencies (!), but it doesn't know how (with numpy and scipy). (easy_install was so much nicer.) Josef > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
