Folks, After some more discussion here and on the pull request I submitted earlier, here is anew pull request -- I think conforms to what folks suggested, but still makes it a lot easier for folks to find the stand-alone installers if that's what they are looking for.
https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/32 -Chris On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -- 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
