[pydata-outreach-staff] Laptop setup guide, and questions

[Vid]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Status of the setup guide so far:
>
> * Discovered an un under-documented dependency on Cython -- the build from
> git abruptly fails in the absence of Cython (it's in the README, but in the
> 'optional' section, so I missed it) (all platforms)

Not sure I understood, so I'm curious to know if you are building
Cython from source for Linux?

If yes, For Ubuntu/Debian, I'd suggest we keep it simple and ask
people to use the package manager(apt-get/aptitude) route. It is
tempting to go bleeding edge but most newbies would be turned off by
gcc build errors.  ...and dont get me started on other dependencies
like fortran and blas and ...nvm.
It can take all week in dependency hell. Been there, done that *scary*
</thinking out loud>
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