On Dec 1, 2013 1:10 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1 December 2013 04:15, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2. For cross-platform handling of external binary dependencies, we > > recommend boostrapping the open source conda toolchain, and using that > > to install pre-built binaries (currently administered by the Continuum > > Analytics folks). Specifically, commands like the following should > > work on POSIX systems without needing any local build machinery, and > > without needing all the projects in the chain to publish wheels: "pip > > install conda && conda init && conda install ipython" > > Hmm, this is a somewhat surprising change of direction.
Indeed it is. Can you clarify a little more how you've come to this conclusion, Nick and perhaps explain what conda is? I looked at conda some time ago and it seemed to be aimed at HPC (high performance computing) clusters which is a niche use case where you have large networks of computation nodes containing identical hardware. (unless I'm conflating it with something else). Oscar
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