On 08/31/2013 02:38 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > 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 > Actually, I'm no sure which release it was. The neurodebian version worked and the ubuntu version worked, too. But a certain debian version was broken, and I think someone reported that somewhere ;)
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