[Numpy-discussion] Binary releases

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

> New summary
>
>    1. 32 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC
>    2. 64 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC,
>    linked with MKL
>
> These should be good for both windows 7 and window 8.
>
>
Wait, when was it decided to move to MSVC for the official binaries ?
Especially using ifort/MKL on windows means it will be difficult for other
projects to produce packages on top of it.

For Mac there is first the question of OS X versions, (10.5?), 10.6, 10.7,
> 10.8. If 10.5 is omitted, packages built on 10.6 should be good for 10.7
> and 10.8, so
>
>    1. OS X 10.6  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native
>    compiler, linked with Accelerate.
>
> The main question seems to be distribution and coordination with scipy. I
> was thinking we would link in MKL statically, which I think should be OK.
> Christoph does that and it should decouple Numpy from Scipy. It may not be
> the most efficient way to do things, but it would work. My impression is
> that if we wanted to distribute a dynamic library then every user would
> need an MKL license to use it.
>
> It would be good to get this settled soon as we can't afford to futz
> around with this forever waiting to release Numpy 1.8 and Scipy 0.13.
>
> Chuck
>
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