2015-01-27 22:13 GMT+01:00 Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Carl Kleffner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for all your ideas. The next version will contain an augumented
> >> libopenblas.dll  in both numpy and scipy. On the long term I would
> prefer an
> >> external openblas wheel package, if there is an agreement about this
> among
> >> numpy-dev.
> >
> >
> > Sounds fine in principle, but reliable dependency handling will be hard
> to
> > support in setup.py. You'd want the dependency on Openblas when
> installing a
> > complete set of wheels, but not make it impossible to use:
> >
> >   - building against ATLAS/MKL/... from source with pip or distutils
> >   - allowing use of a local wheelhouse which uses ATLAS/MKL/... wheels
> >   - pip install numpy --no-use-wheel
> >   - etc.
> >
> > Static bundling is a lot easier to get right.
>
> In principle I think this should be easy: when installing a .whl, pip
> or whatever looks at the dependencies declared in the distribution
> metadata file inside the wheel. When installing via setup.py, pip or
> whatever uses the dependencies declared by setup.py. We just have to
> make sure that the wheels we distribute have the right metadata inside
> them and everything should work.
>
> Accomplishing this may be somewhat awkward with existing tools, but as
> a worst-case/proof-of-concept approach we could just have a step in
> the wheel build that opens up the .whl and edits it to add the
> dependency. Ugly, but it'd work.
>
> maybe an install_requires in setup.py in the presence of an environment
variable could help during build?


> -n
>
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> Nathaniel J. Smith
> Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh
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