On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Robert Bradshaw
<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Bill Page wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time there was
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/spdproject/
>>
>> "Source Python Distribution (SPD) is a Python distribution and many
>> optional (mainly scientific) packages. Everything fully builds from
>> source on any platform (any linux, Mac OS X, clusters and soon
>> windows).
>>
>> It is based on Sage, but the standard download has only 60MB (and
>> builds in less than 10 minutes) and then you only install packages
>> that you really need (or you can just download the 2MB bare SPD
>> package and install things yourself).
>>
>> The aim of SPD is to make it easy for anyone to create all in one
>> distributions with just the packages that he/she needs (e.g. packages
>> that are currently in SPD, like scipy, numpy, notebook and then bunch
>> of custom libraries, that don't even have a spkg yet). See this thread
>> on sage-devel for more information regarding the relation of SPD and
>> Sage."
>>
>> I do not know it's current status
>
> From the above link:
>
> News
> I (Ondrej) am now working actively on FEMhub (femhub.org), which is based on
> SPD, but provide lots of other packages that we need. I currently don't have
> time to maintain both SPD and FEMHub, so I just concentrate on FEMhub now.
> Anything I do for FEMhub can be easily ported to SPD or Sage though, so if
> you want to base your distribution on SPD, let me know, so that we can put
> the common denominator of what we need into SPD.
>
>        • 20 May 2009 Version 3.4.2spd3 released (release notes)
>        • 15 May 2009 Version 3.4.2spd2 released (release notes)
>        • 12 May 2009 Version 3.4.2spd1 released (release notes)
>        • 15 Apr 2009 Version 3.4.1.beta4 released (release notes)

This says it pretty much all.

Ondrej

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