[Numpy-discussion] Dropping support for, Accelerate/veclib?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Nils Becker <n.becker at amolf.nl> wrote:
> > fwiw, homebrew is not macports. it's a more recent replacement that
> > seems to be taking over gradually.
>
> And then there is (or was) fink----
>
> Anyway, it would be really nice if numpy could work well out-of-the
> box with the pyton.org python (and or the Apple-supplied one) without
> any need fro macports, homebrew, etc.


The binaries will still be built against python.org Python, so there
shouldn't be an issue here. Same for building from source.


> It's  actually pretty cool that
> Apple provides veclib, and and I liked that it got used by default
> with a simple "setup.py build".
>

Yeah, I still have an OS X 10.6 machine and Accelerate works great there.
But they screwed it up pretty bad in 10.7, and then made it worse for 10.8.
Not so cool anymore....

It would be nice to keep it that way.
>

> If a user (or distributor of binaries) wants to build the whole scipy
> stack, they'll need to figure out all this *&^%& anyway, changing a
> config in numpy to build differently would be the easiest part.
>
> And yes, there really are folks that use numpy a lot without scipy.
>

I think we have to indeed keep it easy to build from source. Maybe
providing a script to automatically fetch all dependencies and then build
(like MPL does) would be a good way to go.

Ralf


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