2014-03-27 14:55 GMT+01:00 <josef.p...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Olivier Grisel > <olivier.gri...@ensta.org> wrote: >> My understanding of Carl's effort is that the long term goal is to >> have official windows whl packages for both numpy and scipy published >> on PyPI with a builtin BLAS / LAPACK implementation so that users can >> do `pip install scipy` under windows and get something that just works >> without have to install any compiler (fortran or C) nor any additional >> library manually. >> >> Most windows users are beginners and you cannot really expect them to >> understand how to build the whole scipy stack from source. >> >> The current solution (executable setup installers) is not optimal as >> it requires Administrator rights to run, does not resolve dependencies >> as pip does and cannot be installed in virtualenvs. > > as small related point: > > The official installers can be used to install in virtualenv > The way I do it: > Run the superpack, official installer, wait until it extracts the > correct (SSE) install exe, then cancel > Then easy_install the install exe file that has been extracted to the > temp folder into the virtualenv. > > I don't remember if the extraction already requires admin rights, but > I think not. > easy_install doesn't require any, IIRC.
Hackish but interesting. Maybe the extraction can be done with generic tools like winzip? -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
