2013/4/7 <[email protected]> > 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 >
You can use --no-deps to prevent pip from trying to upgrade dependencies. -=- Olivier
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