[yocto] Yocto Project support for Numeric/Scientific Python

[Mike Looijmans]

+1

Got lapack to compile, but no such luck with any "blas" package (like 
openblas). And that's a requirement for octave, which was what I was aiming at.

I'll share some recipes, tomorrow or so (today is stuffed with other work).


On 23-01-19 22:39, Philip Balister wrote:
> I care :)
> 
> On 01/23/2019 04:28 PM, Randy MacLeod wrote:
>> 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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