BLD: Updading travis scipy package.

[cpelley]

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[cpelley]

ON HOLD, currently CF site not accessible

[bblay]

Ok, @cpelley, should be able to rebase onto master now travis is no longer affected by that website outage.

[rhattersley]

These lines could do with a comment explaining why they are in this position in the file. (And hence when they might be able to be folded back into the normal section.)

[bblay]

Hopefully just a small change required to version number handling, fingers crossed.

[bblay]

Please could the benefits of switching to SciPy 0.12 be outlined here?
Was Travis getting 0.9 before this change?

[cpelley]

Benefits not understood by me, I don't think there is a specific user case driving it.

[cpelley]

Was Travis getting 0.9 before this change?

yes v0.9 I believe since travis is a 12.04 release of ubuntu (precise)

[cpelley]

Assuming that the above indicates a problem with the numpy version??
Making a new commit which prints out the matplotlib and numpy versions.

[bblay]

@rhattersley, what are your thoughts on building a version of SciPy for Travis and hosting it somewhere?

[cpelley]

Great, now uses the same numpy but with scipy 0.12.0

[cpelley]

Works

[bblay]

Great, now uses the same numpy but with scipy 0.12.0

Is that a problem?

[cpelley]

Great, now uses the same numpy but with scipy 0.12.0

Is that a problem?

No the opposite, using numpy from 12.04 ubuntu and scipy 0.12.0 built to use dependencies in 12.04

Thanks @esc24 for pointing us to pylab
https://launchpad.net/~pylab/+archive/stable

[cpelley]

Just rebasing now

[cpelley]

Passes, ready to go in.

[esc24]

What's wrong with sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:pylab/stable?

[cpelley]

I'll give it a go

[bblay]

Please hold off merging this while to possibility of upgrading to NumPy 1.7 is explored.

[cpelley]

Please hold off merging this while to possibility of upgrading to NumPy 1.7 is explored.

Since this would be from a separate PPA, I think that should go in a separate PR

[cpelley]

Found one here:
https://launchpad.net/~tukss/+archive/ppa/+build/4055943

Its unofficial but hey, its travis and it gets wiped so we can give it a go if you like?

[cpelley]

(the one we have added for scipy is also unofficial so....)

[bblay]

@cpelley I'm trying pip, can't do any harm for you to try launchpad, perhaps in another branch?

[bblay]

pip install -I numpy==1.7 took Travis about three minutes and the tests pass...

[cpelley]

Since travis already takes 23min... is 3 minutes significant?

[cpelley]

I'll try with the one off launchpad

[cpelley]

Update travis numpy -> v1.7.0b2
#975