[SciPy-dev] Scikits and stuff

[Ondrej Certik]

On Dec 28, 2007 11:21 AM, dmitrey <dmitrey.kroshko at scipy.org> wrote:
> I would like to propose to ask user (after scipy installation) about
> willing to install some more scikits, for example
>
>  >>> you can select some scikits packages you want to install:
>
>                  ver           date            license           description
>
> 1. learn    0.1        2007-12-01      GPL              machine learn
> 2. pylab    0.4b      2007-11-01      LGPL         matlab-Python bridge
> ...
> etc
>
>  >>>enter your choise (comma- or space- separated)
>
> It will require working internet connection. Alternatively (and/or
> optionally) user can specify directory containing scikits files,
> transferred as tar.gz files or from svn repository w/o working internet
> connection.

This should not be turned on by default. ./setup.py install just needs
to install scipy and that's it. No user interaction, no internet connection.

Ondrej