On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Philipp K. Janert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Heck, it can take > > > someone with gobs of experience three days just to optimize your > Fortran > > > compiler or graphics rendering engine for good performance with > Python's > > > scientific stack. > > Question: What is the reason for these installation > problems? Most languages/libs these days install > w/o any problems. Why are the Python scientific libs > (still?) so challenging in this regard. > Note that he said "optimize" - if you dont mind a non-optimized LAPACK, etc, then at least the core libs are pretty easy (VTK still a pain...) The major projects provide binaries, and if you're on Windows, Chris Gohlke's repository is AMAZING, and if you're on OS-X or linux, most stuff builds pretty easily out of the box (if you only need it to run on your machine...) -Chris -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
