On 3 November 2016 at 00:02, Matthew Brett
Anaconda has an overwhelming advantage on Windows, in that Continuum can bear the licensing liabilities enforced by the Intel Fortran compiler, and we can not. We therefore have no license-compatible Fortran compiler for Python 3.5 - so we can't build scipy, and that's a full stop for the scipy stack. I'm sure you know, but the only practical open-source option is mingw-w64, that does not work with the Microsoft runtime used by Python 3.5 [1]. It appears the only person capable of making mingw-w64 compatible with this runtime is Ray Donnelly, who now works for Continuum, and we haven't yet succeeded in finding the 15K USD or so to pay Continuum for his time.
Is this something the PSF could assist with? Either in terms of funding work to get mingw-w64 working, or in terms of funding (or negotiating) Intel Fortran licenses for the community? Paul