
Sept. 16, 2013
2:15 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
Why not just release numpy 1.8 with the old and terrible system? As you know I'm 110% in favor of getting rid of it, but 1.8 is ready to go and 1.9 is coming soon enough, and the old and terrible system does work right now, today. None of the other options have this property.
On the down side, the "old and terrible system" does not cover providing pre-built binaries for 64 bit Windows. Doing that right is important not just for SciPy but for any other downstream package including C code compiled against the NumPy C API (and the people doing this probably will only have access to free compilers). Regards, Peter