On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Ralf Gommers >> Perhaps a more formal "development release" system could help here. >> IIUC, numpy pretty much has two things:
> This is a good idea - not for development releases but for master. Building > nightly/weekly binaries would help more people try out new features. good start, but I think master may fluctuate too quickly (and how often is it broken?) but better than nothing, yes? >> 2) there is the wxversion system > wxversion was broken for a long time on Ubuntu too (~5 yrs ago). I don't > exactly remember it as a good idea. well, it was a good idea, maybe not a good implementation -- and it was vary helpful a few years back when wx was in major flux. What we really need is python itself providing a package version selection mechanism, but Guido&c never saw the need (the existence of virtualenv proves the need if you ask me....) > virtualenv also doesn't help, because if you can use that you know how to > build from source anyway. not true -- lots of folks use easy_install and/or pip with virtualenv. and the git barrier to entry is not trivial -- granted jsut getting master is not hard, but I know i've been using git for a couple months on a core project of mine, and I still find it's giving me far more pain that help. (I know I stil haven't wrapped my brain around what DVCS really is...) -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
