[scikit-learn] Declaring numpy and scipy dependencies?

[Matthew Brett]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Andreas Mueller <t3kcit at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 07/28/2016 03:04 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Sebastian Raschka
>> <mail at sebastianraschka.com> wrote:
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>>> I think that should work fine for the `pip install scikit-learn`,
>>> however, I think the problem was with upgrading, right?
>>> E.g., if you run
>>>
>>> pip install scikit-learn --upgrade
>>>
>>> it would try to upgrade numpy and scipy as well, which may not be
>>> desired. I think the only workaround would be to run
>>>
>>> pip install scikit-learn --upgrade --no-deps
>>>
>>> unless they changed the behavior recently. I mean, it’s not really a
>>> problem, but many users may not know about the --no-deps flag.
>>>
>> Also - the install will work fine for platforms with wheels, but is
>> still bad for platforms without - like the Raspberry Pi.
>
> Hm... so these would be ARM wheels? Or Raspberry Pi specific ones?

No, they'd have to be Raspberry Pi specific ones because no-one has
worked out a general ARM-wide specification, as we have for Intel
Linux = manylinux1.

> Do you know if there are plans?
> Not sure how I feel about this. Do all platforms need to have wheels before
> we can rely on them?

I'm not sure either - just throwing it out there...

Matthew