[Numpy-discussion] Binary releases

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Numpy 1.8 is about ready for an rc1, which brings up the question of which
> binary builds so put up on sourceforge. For Windows maybe
>
> 32 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC
> 64 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC, linked with
> MKL

Are we not running into problems with scipy?
scipy would need to use the same libraries, AFAIU (given Fortran and
maybe C compatibilities)

Josef

>
> I think these should be good for both windows 7 and window 8, correct me if
> I am wrong. For Mac there is first the question of OS X versions, (10.5?),
> 10.6, 10.7, 10.8. I don't know if some builds work on more than one OS X
> version. The 10.5 version is a bit harder to come by than 10.6 and up. It
> looks like 10.9 is coming up, but it isn't out yet. I have no idea what
> Python version to match up these, but assuming all of them, then
>
> OS X 10.6  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler, linked
> with Accelerate.
> OS X 10.7  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler, linked
> with Accelerate.
> OS X 10.8  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler, linked
> with Accelerate.
>
> That seems like a lot. It is fairly easy to compile from source on the mac
> these days, are all those binary packages really needed?
>
> I don't know what I am doing with the binary stuff, so any suggestions are
> welcome.
>
> For building it is possible to set up a Macintosh with vmware fusion to
> handle all of these, but there is time and money involved in that. Any one
> who is already capable of doing some of these builds is welcome to
> volunteer. Note, Intel has offered MKL licenses to the open source projects
> under the NumFocus umbrella, but I don't know of anyone who has taken
> advantage of that yet or how much time it will take to go through the
> undoubtedly needed paper work, but I would like to get some of those
> licenses and move to MSVC so that we can stop rolling around gasping in pain
> whenever it comes to window builds. Then there is Fortran for windows...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Chuck
>
>
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