[Distutils] Handling the binary dependency management problem

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Fri Dec 6 18:50:55 CET 2013


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:06 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:

> As Ralf, I think it is overkill. The problem of SSE vs non SSE is because
> of one library, ATLAS, which as IMO the design flaw of being arch specific.
>

yup -- really designed for the end user to built it themselves....


> MKL does not have this issue, and now that openblas (under a BSD license)
> can be used as well, we can alleviate this for deployment. Building a
> deployment story for this is not justified.
>

So Openblas has run-time selection of the right binary? very cool! So are
we done here?

-Chris


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