[SciPy-Dev] wheels on PyPI?

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM, David Baumgold <db at edx.org> wrote:
> Hey all, I work for edX, and we include NumPy and SciPy in our software
> platform. We have a lot of tests for our code, and running them requires
> making a virtual environment and installing all of our dependencies each
> time — but NumPy and SciPy take a long time to compile. We’ve actually built
> Python wheel files for all of our dependencies, which we host on an AWS
> server: http://edx-wheels.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com It would be
> super convenient if we could get wheel files for NumPy and SciPy on PyPI, so
> that its easier for us to install them in our test environment — and I
> imagine it would help a whole lot of other people, as well! Who has the
> authorization to upload new packages to the NumPy and SciPy projects on
> PyPI, and how can I contribute our wheel files back to the community?
> Alternatively, how can I help the SciPy project build and distribute wheel
> files automatically, as part of the standard release process? Thanks for the
> info!

As promised some time ago, I've put up scipy wheels for 0.13.3 on pypi.

Assuming you've got Python.org Python, you should now be able to do:

pip install numpy scipy matplotlib

from the OSX command line (after upgrading pip to latest).

Cheers,

Matthew