May 26, 2022
10:35 a.m.
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 4:51 AM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick update here--I will likely delay branch creation a bit > because I'm behind schedule on reviewing PRs with a milestone, and because > meson infrastructure doesn't need to be rushed to cut just before the > (long) weekend. > Thanks, makes sense. I'm trying to get it in a good state by today, but am still waiting for the meson-python 0.5.0 release (expected later today). > > It might also be nice if I could get the cibuildwheel infra leveraging the > new meson backend, though that may be aspirational (I think it struggled to > find OpenBLAS when I rebased on the pertinent meson branch locally). Part > of this is just that it is nice to be able to copy fixes in wheel > infrastructure from i.e., NumPy, and if we end up on multibuild for longer > than they are it could strand us a little bit more in terms of fixing > issues. > That should be relatively straightforward for the Meson part, but moving to cibuildwheel itself right before a release sounds like a much bigger lift. Cheers, Ralf > > Best wishes, > Tyler > > On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 02:36, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:45 AM Pamphile Roy <roy.pamphile@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Tyler, >>> >>> Thank you for the schedule. >>> >>> From the milestone issues/PR, we have a few things to wrap like DIRECT, >>> distances to pybind and lot of deprecations to execute. >>> And of course Meson, CLI and dev docs but mostly affects devs. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Pamphile >>> >>> >>> On 21.04.2022, at 04:37, Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Feedback is welcome on the draft schedule for the 1.9.0 release process >>> below. Meson build system seems like a big/welcome change to have nice and >>> stable for that release I think? >>> >>> Yes indeed, we are on track to enable it by default as the build system >> that's used when building from source. There's a few minor loose ends, plus >> two things that should be considered blockers (I plan to resolve those in >> the first half of May): >> 1. Finish and merge the wheel build PR: >> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/15476 >> 2. Better test building with MKL. I've only seen one report, and it said >> "this works". But I also know MKL's pkgconfig support is fishy, so there's >> likely an issue lurking somewhere. >> >> The plan is to ship 1.9.x releases with two build systems, defaulting to >> Meson for `pip install scipy-1.9.xxx.tar.gz` but easy to switch back to >> distutils in case there's an issue for some build config. >> >> >>> Some of the dates may be +/- 1-2 days because of the US Holiday weekend >>> in late May. >>> >>> - May 26/2022: branch 1.9.x (5 full weekends from now) >>> - May 29/2022: rc1 >>> - June 11/2022: rc2 (if needed) >>> - June 20/2022: final release >>> >>> >> Looking at what's under the 1.9.0 milestone, this timing seems fine to >> me. Thanks for managing this release Tyler! >> >> Cheers, >> Ralf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SciPy-Dev mailing list -- scipy-dev@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to scipy-dev-leave@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/ >> Member address: tyler.je.reddy@gmail.com >> > _______________________________________________ > SciPy-Dev mailing list -- scipy-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to scipy-dev-leave@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/ > Member address: ralf.gommers@gmail.com >