[ase-users] Dependency: scipy

[El Khatib Rodriguez, Muammar]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Ask Hjorth Larsen via ase-users
<ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Starting from ASE 3.17.0 (so not including possible 3.16.x bugfix
> releases), ASE will require scipy.  So far scipy was optional.  Scipy
> is available in practically all packaging systems, and is
> automatically installed via pip along with ASE, so hopefully this
> change will not matter to anyone.  Nevertheless if anyone here knows
> of any platforms/architectures where scipy is somehow problematic, it
> would be interesting to know about.
>

Just an addition to what you wrote. Debian has a public build status
page for packages, and for the case of python$version-scipy the link
is here:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=python-scipy

Scipy seems to only create problems when compiled on very uncommon
architectures. Judging from this, I would suppose that having it as an
ASE dependence would not create too much trouble as you mentioned.


Best,

-- 
Muammar W El Khatib Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Brown University School of Engineering
184 Hope Street
Providence, RI, 02912, USA
http://brown.edu/go/catalyst