[Numpy-discussion] 1.8.1rc1 on sourceforge.

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That would be helpful. Ralf does those now and I suspect he would welcome
>> the extra hands. The two sites for release builds are Sourceforge and Pypi.
>> I don't know if the wheels builds are good enough/accepted on Pypi,
>>
>
> Would anyone decide that other than this group?
>
>
>> but if you would like permissions on Sourceforge we can extend them to
>> you. We have been trying to do releases for OSX 1.5, which needs a machine
>> running an obsolete OS, but perhaps we should consider dropping that in the
>> future.
>>
>
> Drop that baby!
>
> First, it's bit odd -- as I undertand it, the python.org builds support
> either 10.3.9 + or 10.6+. As 10.5 has not been supported for Apple for a
> couple years, and 10.6 is getting pretty darn long in the tooth, the only
> reason to support that older build is for PPC support - I wonder how many
> folks are still running PPCs? I thought I was one of the hold outs, and I
> dropped it over a year ago. I'd love to know if it is something that the
> community still needs to support.
>
>
Now that I look on sourceforge, I don't see any OS X 10.5 builds, they are
all 10.6+. So that bit of support seems to have dropped in reality, if not
officially.

Chuck
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