[SciPy-Dev] dropping OS X dmg installers

[Daniel Farrell]

Hi,

Mailing list lurker here. 

In 6 years of using Scipy on OS X I have never used the DMGs. In my opinion most users will manage there own Python stack. Using brew for the installation and using pip to manage packages. This is trivial to do these days.

Best wishes,

Dan


> On 24 May 2015, at 14:15, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When updating the build scripts and release docs for 0.16.x I realized that:
> - the DMG installers haven't been built for 0.14.1 and 0.15.x
> - we didn't officially decide this AFAIK, but no one complained
> - the wheels we now have on pip for OS X are more general than the DMG installers; the latter only work with python.org Python.
> - wheels are also easier to build [1] and test [2] (thanks Matthew!)
> 
> So shall we make it official that we won't build any more DMG installers for releases?
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/MacPython/scipy-wheels
> [2] https://github.com/MacPython/scipy-stack-osx-testing
> 
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