[Numpy-discussion] Binary releases

[David Cournapeau]

Ok, so I've looked a bit into it tonight:

 - used mingw-w64 4.8.1 (32 bits host)
 - openblas binaries available on the official website (seem to be built
with mingw w64)
 - used -static-libgcc, -static-libstdc++ and -static-libgfortran
 - building numpy went ok, test suite almost passes, nothing too alarming.
 - scipy is still a bit trouble some, I need to look more into it. It
definitely looks better than last time I've tried (where it crashed right
away).

David


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Why not just release numpy 1.8 with the old and terrible system? As
>> >> you know I'm 110% in favor of getting rid of it, but 1.8 is ready to
>> >> go and 1.9 is coming soon enough, and the old and terrible system does
>> >> work right now, today. None of the other options have this property.
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> The above makes a lot of sense, so I decided to check that it actually
> does work. Unsurprisingly, it needs fixing:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/3760
>
> Ralf
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>> >
>> > On the down side, the "old and terrible system" does not
>> > cover providing pre-built binaries for 64 bit Windows.
>> >
>> > Doing that right is important not just for SciPy but for any
>> > other downstream package including C code compiled
>> > against the NumPy C API (and the people doing this
>> > probably will only have access to free compilers).
>>
>> That's not a downside -- that's the situation right now and will
>> continue to be the situation for the immediate future, if we cut a
>> 1.8rc1 tomorrow and also if we don't cut a 1.8rc1 tomorrow. Again, I'm
>> absolutely behind getting this sorted out, but holding up the release
>> on all platforms is not going to make win64 standalone binaries appear
>> any faster, and in the mean time everyone seems to be getting along
>> OK, either because they're using a distribution, are on another
>> platform, or taking advantage of Cristoph's generosity (thank you
>> Cristoph!).
>>
>> Worst case, if it all gets sorted out next week we could release an
>> 1.8.1 to celebrate...
>>
>> -n
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