Heroku buildpack: Python, Numpy, and Scipy

This is a custom Heroku buildpack for Python apps that use NumPy and/or SciPy, powered by pip.

Please open a GitHub for any problems encountered or feature requests. If are using this project and found it useful, please let me know! (Preferably by email: [email protected]). I maintain this project on my spare time, and I am much more motivated to work on it if I know there are people who are benefiting.

Details

This buildpack currently supports:

NumPy:

• 1.6.2
• 1.7.2
• 1.8.1
• 1.8.2
• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2

SciPy:

• 0.13.3 (compiled against NumPy 1.9.0)
• 0.14.0 (compiled against NumPy 1.8.1)
• 0.15.1 (compiled against NumPy 1.9.2)

Note: SciPy should be compiled against the right minor version of NumPy, but the patch version doesn't matter, e.g., SciPy 0.15.1 can be compiled against 1.9.0 or 1.9.1, but probably not 1.8. I checked every single case though -- you should run tests (numpy.test() or scipy.test()) if you aren't sure that things will work.

This package will also install compiled runtime libraries for BLAS, LAPACK, ATLAS, and Fortran, which are needed by NumPy and SciPy at runtime.

Known Issues and Todos

1. Scikit-learn can be installed, but may not pass all tests. For example, scikit-learn 0.14.1 installed with NumPy 1.9.0 and SciPy 0.13.3 did not pass all tests. You can see the failed tests in this issue. Another user reported that scikit-learn 0.15.2 installed fine, although he did not post any test results.
2. This buildpack may not work well with Multipack apps (e.g., see this issue).
3. I was getting some minor test failures for NumPy 1.9.2 that I wasn't able to resolve. See more information here. Please contact me if you have a problem related to this.

If any of these issues are immediately impacting you, please open a Github issue so that I know that they are higher priority items.

Usage

For a new app:

heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/thenovices/heroku-buildpack-scipy

For an existing app:

heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/thenovices/heroku-buildpack-scipy

You must specify your exact desired version in requirements.txt (e.g., numpy==1.9.0). If no version is specified, the latest version available will be used. At this time, this buildpack does not support requirements of the form numpy>=1.8.

Demo

$ mkdir testheroku
$ cd testheroku
$ git init
$ heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/thenovices/heroku-buildpack-scipy
$ echo -e "numpy==1.9.2\nscipy==0.15.1" > requirements.txt
$ git add requirements.txt
$ git commit -m 'Added requirements'
$ git push heroku master

Acknowledgments

This fork is taken from @dbrgn -- I owe thanks to him, @wyn, and others for setting up a lot of the code here.