On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > Some of the external packages are Python packages, under > > sklearn/externals. These are: joblib and six. While I understand why C > > packages are bundled, I cannot see the benefit of having bundled > > python packages, instead of listing them as dependencies. Both > > packages can be installed with pip (and via yum in Fedora). > Because not all people install packages via pip or the package manager. > Including non-standard libraries makes installation seamless across > packages. > Debian usually unbundles them which resulted in incompatible > scikit-learn and joblib packages for the last release :-/
Could you please elaborate on this Andreas? I have not received any bug report nor I can deduce any diverged version, neither any unittest in sklearn detected any incompatibility: (git)novo:~deb/scikit-learn[0.14.X]git $> git describe --tags 0.14.1 $> git log sklearn/externals/joblib | head commit 107a0c8b374c1370c1af37d02ae50ecb1d6f2226 Author: Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]> Date: Fri Jul 26 17:10:09 2013 +0200 ENH: update joblib to 0.7.1 2013-07-25 Gael Varoquaux MISC: capture meaningless argument (n_jobs=0) in Parallel $> apt-cache policy python-joblib python-joblib: Installed: 0.7.0+git14-g3e5784c-1 Candidate: 0.7.1-1 Version table: 0.7.1-1 0 900 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 600 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
