On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
 It looks like
99% of Windows users do have SSE2 though [1].  So I think what is
required is

* Build the wheels for 32-bit (easy)
* Patch the wheels to check and give helpful error in absence of SSE2
(fairly easy)
* Get agreement these should go up on pypi and be maintained (feedback anyone?)

+Inf 

It would benefit the community a LOT to have binary wheels up on PyPi, and the very small number of failures due to old  hardware will be no big deal, as long as the users get a meaningful message, rather than a hard crash.

-Chris



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