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It was fine, back in the early days (I started with 1.4-ish). I just downloaded the tarball, unpacked, configured, make, installed into /usr/local on my worksta
by oddthink 3y ago
It was fine, back in the early days (I started with 1.4-ish). I just downloaded the tarball, unpacked, configured, make, installed into /usr/local on my workstation, then downloaded and stuck any packages into site-packages. Numeric was sometime tricky to compile right, but ye olde "configure && make && make install" worked fine.
Of course, that worked because 1) I was really only doing one project, not juggling multiple ones, 2) there weren't all that many dependencies (Numeric, plotting, etc.), and 3) I was already up to my eyeballs in the build system with SWIG and linking to the actual compute code, so I knew my way around the system.
But every now and then I just shake my fist at the clouds then mutter darkly about just installing the dang thing and maybe not taking on so many dependencies. :-)