Hi, On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are we going to have to have documentation somewhere making it clear that > the numpy wheel shouldn't be used in a conda environment? Not that I would > expect this issue to come up all that often, but I could imagine a scenario > where a non-scientist is simply using a base conda distribution because that > is what IT put on their system. Then they do "pip install ipython" that > indirectly brings in numpy (through the matplotlib dependency), and end up > with an incompatible numpy because they would have been linked against > different pythons? > > Or is this not an issue?
I'm afraid I don't know conda at all, but I'm guessing that pip will not install numpy when it is installed via conda. So the potential difference is that, pre-wheel, if numpy was not installed in your conda environment, then pip would build numpy from source, whereas now you'll get a binary install. I _think_ that Python's binary API specification (pip.pep425tags.get_abi_tag()) should prevent pip from installing an incompatible wheel. Are there any conda experts out there who can give more detail, or more convincing assurance? Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion