[Biopython-dev] Fwd: [biopython] Fix Biopython installation with pip (#172)

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Kai Blin
<kai.blin at biotech.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> On 2013-04-11 12:17, Peter Cock wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>>> Sure, I've got a zoo of Ubuntu systems to try this on, and I'd actually
>>> be
>>> very interested in this. I'll give it a go.
>>
>>
>> A whole zoo of Ubuntu systems? Sounds like an excellent test set :)
>>
>
> So, my tests were run like this:
>
> - set up an Ubuntu server install of the given version.
> - installed build-essential python-dev git-core python-virtualenv
> - ran:
> $ git clone git://github.com/chapmanb/biopython.git
> $ virtualenv test
> $ source test/bin/activate
> $ pushd biopython
> $ pip install .
> $ popd
> $ python -c "import Bio; print Bio.__version__"
>
> Current results are:
> 10.04: works great
> 12.04: fails, telling me that numpy is required
> 12.10: fails, telling me that numpy is required

That sounds like what Brad intended, so that's good.

Does this seem like an improvement to you?

Peter