On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis@continuum.io> wrote:
I'm actually not sure, why. I think the issue is making sure that the release manager can actually "build" NumPy without having to buy a particular compiler.
The MS Express editions, while not open source, are free-to-use, and work fine.
Not sure what what do about Fortran, though, but that's a scipy, not a numpy issue, yes?
fortran is the issue. Having one or two licenses of say Intel Fortran compiler is not enough because it makes it difficult for people to build on top of scipy.
There seems to be a 64-bit version of mingw -- I assume this runs into the same issue that numpy has with new versions of 32-bit mingw? Would it work if that issue were fixed? -n