Hi,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Carl Kleffner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

My 'delocate' utility has a routine for patching wheels :

pip install delocate
delocate-patch --help

Cheers,

Matthew
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