[SciPy-dev] ANN: SciPy 0.7.0b1 (beta release)

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2008/11/26 David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>:
> You can simply install several versions in parallel, using something
> like stow if you are on unix. That's what I use to easily switch between
> a stable version for my research and last svn version when developing
> numpy/scipy. Even simpler, you can first install it in a temporary
> directory to test it.

I.e. (unverified, but you get the idea):

STAGE=/path/to/stage
SCIPY=/path/to/scipy
mkdir ${STAGE}
cd ${SCIPY}
python setup.py install --prefix=${STAGE}
cd
export PYTHONPATH=${STAGE}
python -c 'import scipy; scipy.test(level=1)

Cheers
Stéfan