[yocto] Yocto Project support for Numeric/Scientific Python

[Philip Balister]

Sounds like we need a layer for packages that needs fortran enabled and
collect out work there.

Philip

On 01/24/2019 05:31 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> +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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