On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Joachim Durchholz <j...@durchholz.org> wrote: > Am 04.01.2015 um 14:51 schrieb Matthew Brett: >> >> As far as I can see pip has had uninstall since version 0.6, about 5 >> years ago. The stackoverflow post is someone trying to uninstall >> using the wrong command line. > > > LOL. That's what you get from just skimming a problem report. > > So, pip is in the clear about uninstalling. > Are there other problems with it that would affect us?
For sympy / mpmath, no, I don't think so. I'm happy to be corrected if someone can think of something. >> I suspect the new tool that gets really widespread adoption will first >> need to persuade the Python Packaging Authority [3]. > > > I'd be very happy if that's truly the case, because their policy sounds very > much like what we need (very careful not to break backwards compatibility > etc.) > Can we verify that the PPA is really authoritative? At least in those ways > that count, i.e. if what they decide is quickly and widely adopted, that's > good enough for me, authoritative or not. I think PPA is authoritative on general Python packaging. I think that conda and so on are trying to establish themselves as de-facto standards in scientific Python. The route that most projects I know have taken is to build things that work with pip (like wheels for matplotlib etc) and let Continuum and the conda team develop conda packages. Cheers, Matthew -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH6Pt5p8b46L0ehP%2B_SGjnGem%3DAPR5qN11EeNLqygunWuP9EYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
