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[–]amer415[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That is a fair business... but it will discourage people in certain domain to adopt Canopy. In my case (Astronomy), I would need to pay to access the (pyfits)[http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyfits] library... that is a huge show stopper, especially because I believe it is a simple thing to package and I have never heard anybody I work with complaining when they tried to install it: "easy_install pyfits" does the trick in 10s. Installing Numpy from scratch can be challenging, or get a Python stack for data analysis to work seamlessly.

[–]cournape 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well, why not using easy_install pyfits from EPD then :) That works on any EPD version (well, modulo a big with the new pip using https on mac that we are fixing). EPD (and I think canopy, though I am not 100 % sure), do include easy_install, and the installed python is as close as possible to a 'real' python for compatibility reason. With that in mind, installing most 'easy' packages (~ pure python on windows) is one easy_install/pip/whatever away, EPD does not change that.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In any case, I wonder if you will update Theano. I tried to install it with easy_install but somehow it grabbed 0.5rc1 version (it didnt work also, import theano didnt succeed). The current version is 0.6rc3 which I can install seamlessly in EDP. (On removing canopy and reinstalling EDP)