Re: binary distributions

Dave,

I'm not sure what is meant when you said ipython is dynamically linked.
Since ipython is written completely in Python I'm not sure the concept
of linking applies. Did you mean the basin_remote package was
dynamically linked? It is true that all compiled sources (in the kernel
and remote) are dynamically linked by default.

Anyway, I'll be in 808 tomorrow and once I get my immediate task list
taken care of, I should have some time in the afternoon to research this
and come up with something intelligent to say.

~doug

Dave Goldberg wrote:
> All,
>
> I was wondering about how much simpler it will be if we also have binary
> distributions of, say, the kernel and server packages for BASIN.
>
> Chatting with James, it seems like ipython dynamically links everything, but I
> could imagine, for example, that the kernel could be distributed as just as a
> static library (plus a few makefiles and the like), and the only required
> external package a user would need is mpich. True? What about the server?
>
> It would be very nice if the folks at scipy could give BASIN a try without 3
> hours of compile time first.
>
> DG
>
Received on Thu Jul 26 20:08:55 2007