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

[dweber at cgl.ucsf.edu]

Hi Terry,

It might help to use virtualenv, which can encapsulate or sandbox your
additions to the chimera python environment.  Please see my notes on this
at http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/ChimeraDevEnv (and links
therein).  If you have a list of packages your working with, it might be
possible to create a script that will "easy_install" them into a
virtualenv.

Take care,
Darren



> 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
>
> --
> Paula Therese Lang
> Postdoctoral Scholar
> Alber Lab
> UC Berkeley/QB3
>
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