which scipy binary for Win32

[Dave Hirschfeld]

Adam <nospam <at> example.com> writes:

> 
> Am looking at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.8.0/
> and I wonder which is the binary to install on WinXP ? 
> As pointed to by this page, http://www.scipy.org/Download 
> 
> All I can see on that sourceforge page are the huge 
> python2.6 and python2.7 Powerpacks, at 43megs or so 
> each. The scipy-0.8.0.zip seems to require compilation. 
> 
> 
> Any recommendations or pointers appreciated. Thanks. 
> 
> 


I'd say the easiest thing to do would be to get one of the superpack binaries. I
would probably go for the 9.0rc
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.9.0rc1/) as it will likely
have fewer bugs that 8.0 and will make your code more future-proof in a fast
changing world. That said, not everyone likes living on the bleeding edge...

AFAIK the superpack binaries don't include numpy but are so big because they
contain several versions of scipy depending on whether your cpu supports
SSE1/SSE2 or not at all. The correct version will be detected and installed
automatically.

HTH,
Dave