Re: Fwd: Probmes in running scipy with amd64

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 06:59:56AM -0400, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> All python bugs solved by installing Anaconda2. The drug-hunting software
> is running in Debian9 (stretch) on Anaconda2 python.

Or another way of looking at it:

All scipy bugs worked around by giving it exactly the version of
everything that it assumes.

scipy is not very robust when it comes to dealing with variations in
python library versions.

My impression is that the scientific software in general does not spend
time on making things portable, as long as it works in the one environment
they work in.  Anything more would be time wasted that could have been
spent on something else.

-- 
Len Sorensen