Hi all,

You probably know that building Numpy, Scipy and the rest of the Scipy Stack on Windows is problematic. And that there are plans to adopt the static MinGW-w64 based toolchain that Carl Kleffner has done a lot of work on for the last two years to fix that situation.

The good news is: this has become a lot more concrete just now, with this proposal for funding: http://mingwpy.github.io/proposal_december2015.html

Funding for phases 1 and 2 is already confirmed; the phase 3 part has been submitted to the PSF. Phase 1 (of $1000) is funded by donations made to Numpy and Scipy (through NumFOCUS), and phase 2 (of $4000) by NumFOCUS directly. So a big thank you to everyone who made a donation to Numpy, Scipy and NumFOCUS!

I hope that that proposal gives a clear idea of the work that's going to be done over the next months. Note that the http://mingwpy.github.io contains a lot more background info, description of technical issues, etc.

Feedback & ideas very welcome of course!

Cheers,

Ralf