Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:23 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> What I do -- and documented for people in my lab to do -- is set up >>> one virtualenv in my user account, and use it as

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread Robert Kern
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 17:42, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:23 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> What I do -- and documented for people in my lab to do -- is set up >>> one virtualenv in my user account, and use it as my

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:23 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> What I do -- and documented for people in my lab to do -- is set up >> one virtualenv in my user account, and use it as my default python. (I >> 'activate' it from my login scripts.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:34 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> Buildout, virtualenv all work by sandboxing from the system python: >> each of them do not see each other, which may be useful for >> development, but as a deployment solution to t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] [SciPy-dev] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Andrew Straw wrote: >> > Typically, the dependencies only depend on the smallest subset of what > they require (if they don't need lapack, they'd only depend on > python-numpy-core in your example), but yes, if there's an unsatisfiable > condition, then apt-get wil

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:05:54AM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > What I do -- and documented for people in my lab to do -- is set up > one virtualenv in my user account, and use it as my default python. (I > 'activate' it from my login scripts.) The advantage of this is that > easy_install (or pi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2010-01-03 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:34 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > Buildout, virtualenv all work by sandboxing from the system python: > each of them do not see each other, which may be useful for > development, but as a deployment solution to the casual user who may > not be familiar with python, it is u