[yocto] Yocto Project support for Numeric/Scientific Python

[Randy MacLeod]

On 1/23/19 2:54 PM, Smith, Virgil (US) wrote:
> Is there a current or relatively recent recipe for SciPy and related 
> libraries?

People have worked on it at least once before but found some problems
with blas and atlas:
 
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-March/thread.html#40348

I'd say that there is interest.
I CCed Peter who started one of the threads
and BCCed 5 other people who seemed to be interested
since I didn't want to drag them all into the thread.


> 
> Further and more importantly, is having a maintainer for (recipes for) 
> those libraries a priority for the active members of the Project?
> (i.e. does interest rise above the general welcoming of participants to 
> periodically asking “Hey has anyone put out a call to fill this slot?” 
> if/when the slot is vacant).

It's always nice to have a maintainer but community members sometimes
keep recipes up to date even if they aren't direct users.

> 
> BTW: If this is the wrong list for this query, please let me know.

It a reasonable list for general discussion.
If you get to a point where patches are being submitted,
it should probably go to another list such as:

> 
> Why?  We are trying to gauge community interest before making long term 
> plans.
> 
> We would like to know if this horse is at all likely to have healthcare 
> before betting on it (without sacrificing other patients to obtain the 
> proper veterinary degree and keep up practice to treat it ourselves).
heh.

Thanks!
../Randy

> 
> NOTE:  I see from the RRS emails that Derek Straka is currently 
> maintaining the python-numpy recipe.  THANK YOU!
> 
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