[SciPy-user] Numerical Achievements in SciPy

[Robert Kern]

Karl Young wrote:
> It seems to me like the CRAN repository for R based statistics packages 
> (http://cran.r-project.org/) provides a pretty good model for something 
> like this, though maybe there's something I'm missing re. SciPy that 
> makes CRAN a bad model. Having CRAN seems to moderate the size of the 
> basic R package (and install) which is convenient, and things that get 
> heavily tested and used often end up eventually making it in to the core 
> R package.

We essentially have the CRAN model using the Python Package Index.

1. Write your code.
2. Package it using distutils.
3. Submit the package to the PyPI http://www.python.org/pypi/. It will host your
tarballs and eggs and wininst installers, so you don't have to scrounge for
hosting.
4. Write up a web page about it if the description text that PyPI allows isn't
enough for your code. Feel free to use the www.scipy.org wiki if you like.
5. Announce your package here and other places of interest.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco