Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

[Russell O. <ro...@uw...>]

I am glad that the numpy and scipy projects are still creating binary installers for python.org python, but it is a serious problem for users of the matplotlib binary installers that they are so difficult to find.

If a user googles for "numpy download" then the user finds this page
<http://www.numpy.org>
and the link Getting Numpy points to this page
<http://www.scipy.org/install.html>
which does not the binary installers at all.

I agree that most users should probably use Anaconda or its ilk, but I think it would be good to mention the Mac and Windows python.org binary installers quite prominently after that.

-- Russell

On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Thomas Kluyver <th...@kl...> wrote:

> On 7 August 2013 12:54, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:
> P.S. the Mac binary installer for numpy used to be easy to find. I was
> quite dismayed to find how buried it had become when I went looking for
> it a week or two ago.
> 
> Is this down to the redesign of the SciPy site. If so, blame me ;-). I felt, and others seemed to agree, that setting up individual packages separately wasn't a route that we wanted to promote to newcomers, so the new site emphasises all-in-one installers that get you the whole Scipy Stack (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc.) in one go.
> 
> Thomas