Hi, On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Jens Nielsen <jenshniel...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> If someone is running a brew python and does "pip install numpy" will pip >> find a binary wheel that will then not work? That would be bad, but maybe >> not our problem -- brew users should be using brew to build numpy anyway. >> >> No that is not how homebrew works. Brew does not pack anything that pip >> installable: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-and-Python >> so that would be a big issue. Especially since installing numpy with pip >> and brew python just works without any problem when building from source. >> >> There are unofficial brew taps (channels) with python packages but this >> not the recommended way. > > > OK, then I'll re-phrase: > > Brew users should be building from source anyway, even if they use pip to do > it. > > But it would be bad if they had to go out of their way to do that -- I've > lost track of pip's default behavior in this regard.
We should be fine for homebrew. I believe: 1) The wheels work for homebrew as well 2) Homebrew won't pick them up by default at the moment Homebrew python has a more specific architecture version then the python.org python or system python: $ /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/bin/python -c "import distutils.util; print(distutils.util.get_platform())" macosx-10.9-x86_64 So - for now - pip won't recognize the 10.6_intel wheel as matching the required 10.9_x86_64 suffix on the wheel (can be solved by renaming the file as further up the thread). But - in any case - the wheels work fine in homebrew: mkvirtualenv homebrew-2.7 --python=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/bin/python pip install nose # this doesn't see the wheel - because of the platform tag # starts to download and install from source pip install --pre --find-links . numpy # this works pip install numpy-1.8.1rc1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl # tests all pass python -c 'import numpy; numpy.test()' # We're picking up the right numpy python -c 'import numpy; print(numpy.__file__)' deactivate # same for 3.3 mkvirtualenv homebrew-3.3 --python=/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.3.5/bin/python3 pip install nose python -c 'import numpy' pip install --pre --find-links . numpy pip install numpy-1.8.1rc1-cp33-cp33m-macosx_10_6_intel.whl python -c 'import numpy; numpy.test()' So I think we're good. We should surely set up automated testing to assure ourselves that this is still true, when there's time, it shouldn't take very long. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion