On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey@gmail.com> wrote:
Windows 7 is a big improvement over Vista but both suffer the transisition from 32-bit to x64 64-bit architecture (similar to Linux when these x64 cpu's came out). Sure most people do not develop with Windows but do not equate that with a lack of interest. The problem is that Windows and how the Windows binaries are build just makes it very extremely hard to develop for.
Yes, I was really surprised at this. I don't know very much about the workings of Python, but presumably theres a reason the Python people couldn't have made ints on win64 proper 64 bit ints using whatever type microsoft requires instead of just sticking with 32bit C longs. I tried not to have a gripey negative tone in the original email but perhaps I failed. It is always frustrating when you spend a lot of time on something (I spent quite a long time getting MATLAB-Python integration working on 64 bit windows... of course I should have checked numpy+scipy first!). Any way I really appreciate all the work thats gone into making numpy and scipy available... I just wanted to make the point that with windows 7 64 bit windows isn't such a joke and there are people who would use a win64 scipy stack.
You tried FreeNx? http://freenx.berlios.de/
When I tried it it was very hard to get working a bit tempramental... it was a while ago though. Also I'm the only linux user in the lab and I'm leaving soon so windows really was the only option. Cheers Robin