On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Steve Waterbury <[email protected]> wrote: > Point taken -- just didn't want pip to be sold short. > I'm one of those spoiled Linux people, obviously ... ;)
I really like pip -- but it is missing what is really a key feature for Windows (and to a slighltyl lessoe extent, OS-X) -- the ability it isntall binaries. As a rule, intstalling binaries is a pain on Linux, but installing from source is a pain on Windows -- binaroes work really well there. on OS-X, it's a mixed bag -- there are so many different builds of Pyton out there that binaries are a real trick -- but compiling form source can be a pain, too... while easy_install does support binaries, it never did it right on OS-X (what with teh "universal binary" problem (that's OS-X's way of putting multiple binaries in one file-- i.e. PPC and Intel -- easy_install always got confused about what it was supposed to install) And while PPC is getting to be history, we still have Intel32 and Intel64 to deal with... So scouring teh web for the binaries you need is still the way to go. NOTE for OP: for Windows, Christoph Gohlke's repository is a godsend: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ -Chris > Steve > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
