On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Nick Coghlan
wrote: On 4 November 2016 at 03:56, Matthew Brett
wrote: But - it would be a huge help if the PSF could help with funding to get mingw-w64 working. This is the crucial blocker for progress on binary wheels on Windows.
Such a grant was already awarded earlier this year by way of the Scientific Python Working Group (which is a collaborative funding initiative between the PSF and NumFocus): https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scientific/2016-January/000271.html
However, we hadn't received a status update by the time I stepped down from the Board,
This status update was sent to the PSF board in June: http://mingwpy.github.io/roadmap.html#status-update-june-16. Up until that report the progress was good, but after that progress has stalled due to unavailability for private reasons of Carl Kleffner (the main author of MingwPy). Ralf
although it sounds like progress hasn't been good if folks aren't even aware that the grant was awarded in the first place.
There's two separate projects here that turn out to be unrelated: one to get mingw-w64 support for CPython < 3.5, and one for CPython >= 3.5. (This has to do with the thing where MSVC totally redid how their C runtime works.) The grant you're thinking of is for the python < 3.5 part; what Matthew's talking about is for the python >= 3.5 part, which is a totally different plan and team.
The first blocker on getting funding for the >= 3.5 project though is getting the team to write down an actual plan and cost estimate, which has not yet happened...
-n
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