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For years I used Gohlkes installers/wheels[0] to install a great deal of libs on windows easily, SciPy amongst them. For a few packages, it still is the best alternative.

[0] http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/



It's still a bit scary to me that one of the lynchpins of Python Data Processing remains, to some extent, to be this page.


Moreover, the builds are delivered over HTTP and the .whl are not signed ...


You only need it if you cannot use a *nix?

So a lynchpins for the Windows Python Data Processing community?


Sadly not everyone can live in a *nix environment. Supporting Windows developers is a pretty damn big lynchpin...


With the new Windows Subsystem for Linux from Windows 10 you can install Ubuntu over Windows from the Windows Store. It is perfect for Data Sciences.


I think Gohlkes should be rewarded for his work. I attribute his efforts to save hours on mine. Thank you for all you've done.


I wish he would let people help mirror them. Instead the links are all obfuscated and you cannot automate downloads which complicates installation.




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