[SciPy-Dev] What we do struggle with is lack of progress on

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Andrew Nelson <andyfaff at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for docker instructions,  no idea at the moment.
>

+1 good idea. I've opened https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/8340 for
this.

The other open issue is for clarifying the build/install docs on Windows:
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/7140

Ralf



> Perhaps it's my warped view, but I regard that as a bigger learning
> challenge than understanding git workflow, or writing a good commit
> message.
>
> On 25 Jan 2018 8:35 am, "Scott Sievert" <sievert.scott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 👍 to docker. I’d far prefer that if it has clear documentation. It’s far
>> simpler.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On January 24, 2018 at 2:49:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith (njs at pobox.com) wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I've tried using AMIs for development, and local VMs are a *way*
>>> better experience. Much less fiddly copying of files back and forth, better
>>> latency, etc.
>>>
>>> It might make sense to have instructions for getting a docker-based
>>> Linux development environment spun up quickly on Windows and MacOS – these
>>> are really popular nowadays so there's quite a bit of infrastructure for
>>> making it easy.
>>>
>>> On Jan 24, 2018 11:13 AM, "Stefan van der Walt" <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:23:01 -0800, Scott Sievert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think creating an AMI would be useful. I’ve run into build issues on
>>>>> my
>>>>> OSX machine and turned to Amazon to build SciPy and run the tests.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This sounds like a fairly cumbersome way to develop.  We already have
>>>> Travis CI to do the testing in case you really can't compile, and
>>>> there's always Docker Linux images if you're in a fix.
>>>>
>>>> If it were up to me, we'd rather spend energy on updating the developer
>>>> documentation so that each person can setup their own functioning
>>>> environment.
>>>>
>>>> Stéfan
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> SciPy-Dev mailing list
>>>> SciPy-Dev at python.org
>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> SciPy-Dev mailing list
>>> SciPy-Dev at python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> SciPy-Dev mailing list
>> SciPy-Dev at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> SciPy-Dev mailing list
> SciPy-Dev at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/attachments/20180129/00ae3323/attachment-0001.html>