[chimera-dev] numpy library compiled to run with other libraries inside Chimera

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Terry,

   Chimera daily builds are using numpy 1.4.1 compiled with just the 
standard "python setup.py install".  Here's the Chimera numpy make file 
in the Chimera SVN source code repository

     http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/browser/trunk/foreign/numpy

The other day I needed a numpy 1.6 function and was tempted to update 
Chimera to numpy 1.6 but have not done it yet.

   It is difficult for us to predict the numpy version of the next 
Chimera production release because we don't know when Chimera 1.6 will 
be released and we don't know when future numpy versions will be 
released.  We are not likely to update numpy in the 3 months prior to a 
Chimera production release.  And I would like to be up to the most 
current numpy that meets that requirement.

     Tom

> Hey Guys!
>
>           I use Chimera as a back end library for a bunch of my code.  I
> occasionally run into a function that an external library, scipy for
> example, has already implemented.  I have found the chimera flag that
> allows me to import python libraries for use.  However, because numpy is
> already distributed with Chimera, importing libraries that depend on
> numpy is almost _impossible_.  We run into a variety of version and
> compiler issues that are very difficult to work around.  Would it be
> possible to get more transparent documentation on how the numpy library
> is compiled and when it will be upgraded in a particular release?
> (NOTE:  We actually have this problem right now, so even an email with a
> description of the current nightly build set up would be SUPER helpful!).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Terry
>