[Numpy-discussion] 64bit infrastructure

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io>wrote:

> I'm actually not sure, why.   I think the issue is making sure that the
> release manager can actually "build" NumPy without having to buy a
> particular compiler.
>

That would help, yes. MS Express doesn't work under Wine last time I
checked by the way.

However, the issue is more than just one license. There's a large number of
packages that depend on numpy and provide binaries. If they can't make
those compatible with numpy ones, that's a problem. Users will first
install numpy 64-bit, and then later find out that part of the scientific
Python stack isn't available to them anymore.


>
> But, I would rather have official builds of NumPy for all platforms with a
> compiler paid for by a NumPy-sponsor than not have them.
>

I would only want to have those if I can have the whole stack. If that's
possible, then (if Christoph is okay with it) why not upload Christoph's
binaries also to SF and call them "official" then? I don't see the point in
duplicating his efforts.

Ralf


> -Travis
>
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Ralf Gommers > The problem is that,
> > unlike 32-bit builds, they can't be made with open
> >> source compilers on Windows. So unless we're okay with that,
> >
> > Why does it have to be built with open-source compilers? we're
> > building against the python.org python, yes? Which is built with the
> > MS compiler -- so why the insistance on open-source?
> >
> > -Chris
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