On 2/5/2013 10:51 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
MSVC + Intel Fortran + MKL, yes. But those aren't free. So how can you provide an Amazon image for those?
You can make an image that is not public, I guess. I suppose anyone who uses the image would have to have their own licenses for the Intel stuff? Does anyone have experience of this?
You need to purchase one license per developer:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-math-kernel-library-licensing...
I think 64 bits on windows is best pushed off to 1.7.1 or 1.8. It would be a bit much to get it implemented in the next week or two.
The problem with not providing these binaries is that they are at the bottom of everyone's stack, so a delay in numpy holds everyone back.
I can't find completely convincing stats, but it looks as though 64 bit windows 7 is now the most common version of Windows, at least for Gamers [1] around now, and it was getting that way for everyone in 2010 [2].
It don't think it reflects well on on us that we don't appear to support 64 bits out of the box; just for example, R already has a 32 bit / 64 bit installer.
If I understand correctly, the options for doing this right now are:
1) Minimal cost in time : ask Christophe nicely whether we can distribute his binaries via the Numpy page 2) Small cost in time / money : pay for licenses for Ondrej or me or someone to install the dependencies on my Berkeley machine / an Amazon image.
In order not to leave this discussion without a resolution:
Christophe - would you allow us to distribute your numpy binaries for 1.7 from the numpy sourceforge page?
Cheers,
Matthew
I am OK with providing 64 bit "numpy-MKL" binaries (that is numpy compiled with MSVC compilers and linked to Intel's MKL) for official numpy releases. However: 1) There seems to be no real consensus and urge for doing this. Using a free toolchain capable of building the whole scipy-stack would be much preferred. Several 64 bit Python distributions containing numpy-MKL are already available, some for free. 2) Releasing 64 bit numpy without matching scipy binaries would make little sense to me. 3) Please do not just redistribute the binaries from my website and declare them official. They might contain unreleased fixes from git master and pull requests that are needed for my work and other packages. 4) Numpy-MKL requires the Intel runtime DLLs (MKL is linked statically btw). I ship those with the installers and append the directory containing the DLLs to os.environ['PATH'] in numpy/__init__.py. This is a big no-no according to numpy developers. I don't agree. Anyway, those changes are not in the numpy source repositories. 5) My numpy-MKL installers are Python distutils bdist_wininst installers. That means if Python was installed for all users, installing numpy-MKL on Windows >6.0 will prompt for UAC elevation. Another no-no? Christoph