On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Warren Weckesser < warren.weckes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Apparently it is not well known that if you have a Python project >> source tree (e.g., a numpy checkout), then the correct way to install >> it is NOT to type >> >> python setup.py install # bad and broken! >> >> but rather to type >> >> pip install . >> >> > > FWIW, I don't see any mention of this in the numpy docs, but I do see a > lot of instructions involving `setup.py build` and `setup.py install`. > See, for example, INSTALL.txt. Also see > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html#building-from-source > So I guess it is not surprising that it is not well known. > Indeed, install docs are always hopelessly outdated. And we have too many of them. There's duplicate info in INSTALL.txt and http://scipy.org/scipylib/building/index.html for example. We should probably just empty out INSTALL.txt and simply put a link in it to the html docs. I've created an issue with a long todo list and a bunch of links: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/6599. Feel free to add stuff. Or to go fix something:) Ralf
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