Re: conda install and/or wheels for Windows(and other platforms?)

First of all, I think it's good to mention Anaconda/conda, it has gotten
quite a bit of traction lately (personally, I use if everywhere I can).

My preference would be to mention our own packages first, since we have
direct control over them (so, between pip and self compilation in the
README).

One nit about the change: Anaconda is a distribution, conda is the
package manager.

Cheers,

Chris


On 2016-04-08 05:55, Saket Choudhary wrote:
> I proposed a minor change in the README to add instructions for
> Anaconda users: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/804.
> 
> For non-Anaconda Windows users, another (cleaner?) way would be to
> support binary wheels. Projects like numpy, scipy, sklearn have been
> supporting the binary wheels on pypi for Windows and lately for Linux
> [1,2]
> 
> What do people think about moving to binary wheels for pip?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5479
> [2] https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2016-April/075234.html
> 
> 
> Saket Choudhary
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