[SciPy-Dev] Scipy archive on PyPI

[David]

On 06/01/2010 12:15 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Charles Vejnar <ce at vejnar.eu
> <mailto:ce at vejnar.eu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I was trying to install Scipy with easy_install and it seems that
>     downloading
>     from Sourceforge is no longer possible (Sourceforge no longer gives
>     a direct
>     link to the .tar.gz file) which makes the install fail.
>
>     Would it be possible to always upload the latest Scipy tarball to PyPI ?
>
> It's possible, but because that encourages the use of easy_install/pip
> it would probably give more problems than that it helps. Just today
> there was a thread on numpy-discussion about pip failing and standard
> "python setup.py install" fixing the problem. easy_install is just as
> problematic as pip, if not more so.

Unfortunately, people will always use those half broken tools. I think 
we should at least put the tarballs - I also used to put a simple 
executable (result of bdist_wininst) so that easy_install numpy works on 
windows.

cheers,

David