On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Edison Gustavo Muenz < edisongust...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is out-of-topic, but I'm curious on why nobody mentioned > Conda yet. > Conda is a binary distribution system, whereas we are talking about installing from sources. You will need a way to install things when building a conda package in any case David > Is there any particular reason for not using it? > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:48 AM, James E.H. Turner <jehtur...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Apparently it is not well known that if you have a Python project >>> source tree (e.g., a numpy checkout), then the correct way to install >>> it is NOT to type >>> >>> python setup.py install # bad and broken! >>> >>> but rather to type >>> >>> pip install . >>> >> >> Though I haven't studied it exhaustively, it always seems to me that >> pip is bad & broken, whereas python setup.py install does what I >> expect (even if it's a mess internally). In particular, when >> maintaining a distribution of Python packages, you try to have some >> well-defined, reproducible build from source tarballs and then you >> find that pip is going off and downloading stuff under the radar >> without being asked (etc.). Stopping that can be a pain & I always >> groan whenever some package insists on using pip. Maybe I don't >> understand it well enough but in this role its dependency handling >> is an unnecessary complication with no purpose. Just a comment that >> not every installation is someone trying to get numpy on their >> laptop... >> >> Cheers, >> >> James. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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