[Numpy-discussion] Should I use pip install numpy in linux?

[Benjamin Root]

The other half of the fun is how to deal with weird binary issues with
libraries like libgeos_c, libhdf5 and such.  You have to get all of the
compile options right for your build of those libraries to get your build
of GDAL and pyhdf working right. You also have packages like gdal and
netcdf4 have diamond dependencies -- not only are they built and linked
against numpy binaries, some of their binary dependencies are built against
numpy binaries as well. Joys!

I don't envy anybody that tries to take on the packaging problem in any
language.

Ben Root

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> > that this would potentially be able to let packages like numpy serve
>> their
>> > linux
>> > users better without risking too much junk being uploaded to PyPI.
>>
>> That will never fly. But like Matthew says, I think we can probably
>> get them to accept a PEP saying "here's a new well-specified platform
>> tag that means that this wheel works on all linux systems meet the
>> following list of criteria: ...", and then allow that new platform tag
>> onto PyPI.
>>
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> The second step is a trick though -- how does pip know, when being run on
> a client, that the system meets those requirements? Do we put a bunch of
> code in that checks for those libs, etc???
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> If we get all that worked out, we still haven't made any progress toward
> the non-standard libs that aren't python. This is the big "scipy problem"
> -- fortran, BLAS, hdf, ad infinitum.
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> I argued for years that we could build binary wheels that hold each of
> these, and other python packages could depend on them, but pypa never
> seemed to like that idea. In the end, if you did all this right, you'd have
> something like conda -- so why not just use conda?
>
> All that being said, if you folks can get the core scipy stack setup to
> pip install on OS_X, Windows, and Linux, that would be pretty nice -- so
> keep at it !
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> -CHB
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>> -n
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