Manage compilers?

[poikilotherm]

Hi there,

when you use virtualenvs, it might be necessary to compile native extensions for python inside it (e.g. numpy/matplotlib).

Would it be of interest to manage installation of gcc/g++/gfortran for the virtualenv?

I would implement such thing, as I need it myself... ;)

[igalic]

generally, when installing python-dev(el) the compilers should be pulled in as dependencies.

[poikilotherm]

Not necessarily. I looked at the deps of python-dev under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.5 and Fedora 20. There is a fair chance that gcc C-Compiler gets into the dep chain for the python-dev sys package, but gfortran or g++ is most certainly not part of it.

Also, some people might want to use the Intel compiler e.g. for numpy instead of gcc.

[igalic]

ad first: true
ad second: i didn't not know that.

[ghoneycutt]

@poikilotherm @igalic If compilers are necessary, modules such as this should not try to manage that, instead we should include a module that handles those compilers such as puppetlabs/gcc. Happy to include a third party module as needed.