[Numpy-discussion] draft release guide

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Francesc Alted <faltet at pytables.org> wrote:

>
> Ok.  So it seems the MS compiler venue for 64-bit is unavoidable (at this
> moment, at least).  One question though: is a fortran compiler really
> necessary for compiling just numpy?

No, but I personally have little interest in numpy without scipy. You
can build numpy with MS compilers on 64 bits since 1.3.0, this is
entirely supported.

David