[Biopython-dev] conda install and/or wheels for Windows(and other platforms?)

[Peter Cock]

We have talked about various packaged on the download page
on the wiki (currently offline), at very least Anaconda and conda
should be listed there.

Peter

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Christian Brueffer
<christian at brueffer.de> wrote:
> First of all, I think it's good to mention Anaconda/conda, it has gotten
> quite a bit of traction lately (personally, I use if everywhere I can).
>
> My preference would be to mention our own packages first, since we have
> direct control over them (so, between pip and self compilation in the
> README).
>
> One nit about the change: Anaconda is a distribution, conda is the
> package manager.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 2016-04-08 05:55, Saket Choudhary wrote:
>> I proposed a minor change in the README to add instructions for
>> Anaconda users: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/804.
>>
>> For non-Anaconda Windows users, another (cleaner?) way would be to
>> support binary wheels. Projects like numpy, scipy, sklearn have been
>> supporting the binary wheels on pypi for Windows and lately for Linux
>> [1,2]
>>
>> What do people think about moving to binary wheels for pip?
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5479
>> [2] https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2016-April/075234.html
>>
>>
>> Saket Choudhary
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