[Numpy-discussion] Any plans for windows 64-bit installer for 1.7?

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
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>> >> Can we defer the Scipy build until after the Numpy build?
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>> > That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
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>> I must say I'm a little confused as to how we're going to make the
>> decisions here.
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> How about: attempt to reach consensus? David's concern on DLLs hasn't been
> addressed yet, nor has mine on packages being unavailable. I was actually
> still answering another of your emails, but I can't seem to reply fast
> enough.

Yep, we will need to address those.

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>> I'm sure you agree that there's an opposite argument to be made, and I
>> would make it if I thought it would make a difference, but I'm losing
>> faith in my ability to keep the discussion on track, and I don't know
>> what to do about that.
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> I don't see the problem. Before you offered to put in work. Ondrej is
> willing to help, so is Christoph. So why is it impossible to do Scipy
> builds?
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> I can see us getting to a solution here, but offering Numpy installers
> without Scipy ones is not a solution in my book.

Exactly. There is no problem here. Fortran needs to be working as
a first class citizen. I personally use modern Fortran a lot. I've
setup this page:

http://fortran90.org/

with a relevant FAQ about binary compatibility:

http://fortran90.org/src/faq.html#are-fortran-compilers-abi-compatible

and based on how things work on Windows, I'll be happy to extend the
information there.

Ondrej