On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >>> Also, you have the problem that there is one PyPi -- so where do you > put > >>> your nifty wheels that depend on other binary wheels? you may need to > fork > >>> every package you want to build :-( > >> > >> Is this a real problem or a theoretical one? Do you know of some > >> situation where this wheel to wheel dependency will occur that won't > >> just be solved in some other way? > > > > It's real -- at least during the whole bootstrapping period. Say I > > build a nifty hdf5 binary wheel -- I could probably just grab the name > > "libhdf5" on PyPI. So far so good. But the goal here would be to have > > netcdf and pytables and GDAL and who knows what else then link against > > that wheel. But those projects are all supported be different people, > > that all have their own distribution strategy. So where do I put > > binary wheels of each of those projects that depend on my libhdf5 > > wheel? _maybe_ I would put it out there, and it would all grow > > organically, but neither the culture nor the tooling support that > > approach now, so I'm not very confident you could gather adoption. > > I don't think there's a very large amount of cultural work - but some > to be sure. > > We already have the following on OSX: > > pip install numpy scipy matplotlib scikit-learn scikit-image pandas h5py > > where all the wheels come from pypi. So, I don't think this is really > outside our range, even if the problem is a little more difficult for > Linux. > > > Even beyond the adoption period, sometimes you need to do stuff in > > more than one way -- look at the proliferation of channels on > > Anaconda.org. > > > > This is more likely to work if there is a good infrastructure for > > third parties to build and distribute the binaries -- e.g. > > Anaconda.org. > > I thought that Anaconda.org allows pypi channels as well? > It does: http://pypi.anaconda.org/ -Travis > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- *Travis Oliphant* *Co-founder and CEO* @teoliphant 512-222-5440 http://www.continuum.io
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