On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am arguing that whether it's a good idea or not, according to us, is > not going affect the guys and gals in Group 2, and that, unless we > want to lose or discourage those people, we'll always need to support > (and give mind- and page-space to) community-built binary installers. Indeed, and also web pages that make it easy to find them, and clear what you are or aren't getting in each case. When updating the scipy site, we do need to keep in mind that people often (most often?) come into a particular page via a link from elsewhere or a search -- i.e. they haven't read the home page, etc. So even if a page is about how to install the entire scipy stack, folks that are searching for just numpy, etc should find what they need -- or links to what they need. This makes me think: apparently there is an offical "scipy stack" -- and I even found it with a quick google: http://www.scipy.org/stackspec.html There is not a whole lot there, and all the packages in it either currently provide binary installers (or aren't all that hard to build, or Chris Gohlke has built them). So maybe we should have a single point of download for a "community" scipy stack, compatible with the python.org python install. All of the hard work has been done -- we just need to set it up somewhere (and maintain it) -Chris 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
