Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > > They will install everything needed. I think bbfreeze even supplies a > custom interpreter, so you can essentially build a custom python distro > with it. I think it is a much better solution. Maybe it is just me, but I am not convin

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:14, David Cournapeau wrote: >> But then what's the point of installing numpy in virtualenv ? Why not >> installing it system-wide ? The whole business of pushing people to >> install multiple versions of the same pac

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread Christopher Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > It depends on how much resource you can spend on it, but if I were to > distribute things on windows, I would build a msi/bdist_wininst of > every package, and wrap this into another installer (which is almost > exactly what the superpack does). This would stomp on the pe

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:14, David Cournapeau wrote: > But then what's the point of installing numpy in virtualenv ? Why not > installing it system-wide ? The whole business of pushing people to > install multiple versions of the same package for actual deployment is > very wrong IMO. Who says

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Jon Wright wrote: > What I want is a simpler way to install things for people to try out our > programs. We currently have dependencies on at least numpy, matplotlib, > PIL, Pmw and PyOpenGl and having to go through a series of 6 different > installations can be a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread Jon Wright
David Cournapeau wrote: > I now remember that numpy could not be built from sources by > easy_install, but I believe we fixed the problem. Would you mind using > on a recent svn checkout ? I would like this to be fixed if that's > still a problem, With the current svn (6661) I can build using ming

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jon Wright wrote: >>> I'd like to have numpy as a dependency being pulled into a virtualenv >>> automatically. Is that possible with the binary installer? >> >> I don't think s

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-13 Thread Christopher Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jon Wright wrote: >> I'd like to have numpy as a dependency being pulled into a virtualenv >> automatically. Is that possible with the binary installer? > > I don't think so - but I would think that people using virtualenv are > familiar

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-12 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jon Wright wrote: > > I'd like to have numpy as a dependency being pulled into a virtualenv > automatically. Is that possible with the binary installer? I don't think so - but I would think that people using virtualenv are familiar with compiling softwares. I no

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-12 Thread Jon Wright
David Cournapeau wrote: > Hi Jon, > > Jon Wright wrote: >> Hello, >> >> If I do: >> >> C:\> easy_install numpy >> >> ... on a windows box, it attempts to do a source download and build, >> which typically doesn't work. If however I use: >> >> C:\> easy_install numpy==1.0.4 >> >> ... then the magi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-12 Thread David Cournapeau
Hi Jon, Jon Wright wrote: > Hello, > > If I do: > > C:\> easy_install numpy > > ... on a windows box, it attempts to do a source download and build, > which typically doesn't work. If however I use: > > C:\> easy_install numpy==1.0.4 > > ... then the magic works just fine. Any chance of a more re

[Numpy-discussion] numpy via easy_install on windows

2009-03-12 Thread Jon Wright
Hello, If I do: C:\> easy_install numpy ... on a windows box, it attempts to do a source download and build, which typically doesn't work. If however I use: C:\> easy_install numpy==1.0.4 ... then the magic works just fine. Any chance of a more recent bdist_egg being made available for windo