On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Christoph Gohlke
<cgohlke@uci.edu> wrote:
On 7/18/2010 2:20 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Peter
<numpy-discussion@maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM, cool-RR<cool-rr@cool-rr.com> wrote:
Hello.
I'd appreciate if the NumPy team could provide an MSI installer
for Python 2.7.
Thanks,
Ram Rachum.
You're not the only person who would like this - it was discussed
here just 9 days ago, thread title "A release for python 2.7?", and
the conclusion was we'd have to wait for Numpy 1.5, probably in
August.
It seems that building from the 1.4.x branch works out of the box, so
at least a numpy msi should be straightforward,
Binaries built from the numpy 1.4.x branch do crash on Python 2.7 because of this: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1345. The fix is easy to backport (attached). Until yesterday another reason not to release numpy 1.4.1 binaries for Python 2.7 was the projected use of PyCapsule instead of PyCObject in numpy 1.5+.
I don't think we can apply this patch, compile some binaries and still call it 1.4.1. It would be 1.4.2, which wouldn't take that much less time to arrive than 1.5.0. Maybe it does make sense to apply the patch for people wanting to create their own binaries, or in (the not so likely) case there is another reason to release 1.4.2.
Cheers,
Ralf