[Distutils] Handling the binary dependency management problem

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 18:57:59 CET 2013


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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?
>

Not that I know of, but you can easily build one for a given architecture,
which is essentially impossible to do with Atlas reliably.

I did not know about openblas instabilities, though. I guess we will have
to do some more testing.

David

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