[SciPy-Dev] Numba as a dependency for SciPy?

[Matthew Brett]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:21 PM, CJ Carey <perimosocordiae at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think adding a required runtime dependency may be overly restrictive,
> given scipy's position near(-ish) the base of the scientific computing
> pyramid.

Yes, that's a worry I have too.  You may remember Samuel Maybury on
the mailing list recently sighing somewhat when he found he had to get
numba installed on the Raspberry Pi.  My guess is numba will be fine
on the standard platforms and a significant problem on non-standard
ones.

Cheers,

Matthew