On 4 December 2013 21:13, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
Besides the issues you mention, the problem is that it creates a single point of failure. I really appreciate everything Christoph does, but it's not appropriate as the default way to provide binary releases for a large number of projects. There needs to be a reproducible way that the devs of each project can build wheels - this includes the right metadata, but ideally also a good way to reproduce the whole build environment including compilers, blas/lapack implementations, dependencies etc. The latter part is probably out of scope for this list, but is discussed right now on the numfocus list.
You're right - what I said ignored the genuine work being done by the rest of the scientific community to solve the real issues involved. I apologise, that wasn't at all fair. Paul