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 ;)

Maybe Gael remembers?

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