@Sergey, I think Ondrej's point is that installing dependencies is not as easy as I have suggested. I guess this is open for debate.
There is probably also a psychological barrier. `mpmath` is the only hard requirement for running sympy, and having it bundled permits the project to say that it has no dependencies (to be fair, I was left with the impression that most of mpmath was developed under the umbrella of sympy). On 28 June 2013 23:44, Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:20:29PM -0500, Ondřej Čertík wrote: >> As far as physically removing sympy.mpmath, is the issue its size? >> The sympy/ dir on my computer has 15M, sympy/mpmath has 1.9M. So the >> size of mpmath can hardly be a reason. > > Not the size, of course. The reasons to drop this bundled library is > exactly the reasons why people prefer to use external libraries > instead of bundled copies. Independent (security) updates for > library, prevent forking, etc. > >> That being said, if projects like binstar (https://binstar.org/), >> which was announced *yesterday*, take off and allow easy >> installation on all platforms (including Windows...), we can revisit >> this. Clearly, the issue of distribution of packages has not been >> fixed *today*. > > I don't see any reasons why this new project is an argument. Can > you list some real problems (better for python >= 2.5)? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
