[SciPy-User] Pylab - standard packages

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io>wrote:

>
> On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
>
> > On 19 September 2012 20:24, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'd propose numpy >= 1.5.1, scipy >= 0.10.0, matplotlib >= 1.1.
> >
> > Thanks Ralf, those all sound like sensible requirements.
> >
>
> I had been thinking that pylab would be a specification of specific
> versions of the packages, but this makes sense as well where a pylab
> specification is a range of release numbers for packages.
>

A set of specific versions sounds nice in theory (for reproducible
research), but then there's no distribution to install that particular set.
So the only benefit I see is that you could easily specify all package
versions in your own stack. Am I missing something?

Ralf


> To avoid a split in the discussion, it would be helpful to join this
> thread to the conversation on the numfocus at googlegroups.com
>
> -Travis
>
>
> > Best wishes,
> > Thomas
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