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

[Chang She]

just curious what problem did you run into setting up Anaconda on windows?
is it not just a matter of setting path?

On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Status so far:
> 
> * I pushed to https://github.com/paulproteus/PyData-Workshop-Sprint/wiki/Laptop%20setup
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> * I read all about compilers on Mac OS, and wrote instructions for getting a compiler there. I believe I've made the best recommendation. It'll require a ~100MB download, except OS X 10.5 it's a ~1GB download. A C compiler is required to build pandas' Cython extensions. If this step goes wrong at the event, it could cost the attendee an hour or more.
> 
> * Linux is tested all the way through. Another tester to verify would be great.
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> * Windows is tested all the way through. Another tester to verify would be great.
> 
> * For OS X, I only have a OS X 10.5 laptop here to test with. I'd appreciate if someone else can write up instructions for using Anaconda Python, since that seems simplest, given that different versions of OS X have different base versions of Python bundled with them. If no one volunteers in the next hour, I can write those up later today.
> 
> Other notes:
> 
> * vid, I don't seem to have push access to your repo at https://github.com/svaksha/PyData-Workshop-Sprint . Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I'm trying to push as 'paulproteus' and getting the same old message.
> 
> * I'm impressed with how, just like it was hard to get the official compiler on UNIX systems in the 1990s, Apple makes it very difficult to get the official compiler on their UNIX. It requires creating and maintaining an account on their site,and it actually took me a few tries before account creation worked properly. To save time for attendees, I've cached a copy of the OS X XCode command line tools in an account of mine on the web.
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> * Other pandas maintainers fixed the Cython requirement so it works on 0.15 or later, rather than requiring 0.17.1, so Debian/Ubuntu users can 'apt-get install cython' and get it to work now!
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> * EPD Free doesn't include Cython, so EPD isn't a super helpful starting point.
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> * I'm pretty un-thrilled about the idea of giving Windows users "Anaconda Python", even if they already have Python installed. If they have Python already, they'll have to be careful to use Anaconda Python throughout the day, and that is probably an error-prone, habit-fighting procedure. Mac users, well, there's too many Python versions distributed by Apple to suggest otherwise.
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> * Because of the bug in distutils, I switched the Windows compiler to the Microsoft one, which I've tested and adjusted the docs for. (Interestingly, Anaconda bundles mingw32 compilers and presumably works around the distutils bug.)
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> * When you run out of space when using github's 'gollum' wiki tool, it corrupts your local git repo.
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> * Numpy's website is down: http://numpy.scipy.org/ ("404 / There isn't a GitHub Page here" is what I see there.)
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> * I still have to write the final part about configuring a Github account, and doing 'git remote rm origin' etc. to point the git remote "origin" at your fork, and create an 'upstream' origin. Should be done and pushed shortly.
> 
> * The text editor configuration guide uses 4 spaces for "tab". That seems consistent with the Pandas recommended style.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
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