[Numpy-discussion] Windows build/distribute plan & MingwPy funding

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray+numpy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> You probably know that building Numpy, Scipy and the rest of the Scipy Stack
>> on Windows is problematic. And that there are plans to adopt the static
>> MinGW-w64 based toolchain that Carl Kleffner has done a lot of work on for
>> the last two years to fix that situation.
>>
>> The good news is: this has become a lot more concrete just now, with this
>> proposal for funding: http://mingwpy.github.io/proposal_december2015.html
>>
>> Funding for phases 1 and 2 is already confirmed; the phase 3 part has been
>> submitted to the PSF. Phase 1 (of $1000) is funded by donations made to
>> Numpy and Scipy (through NumFOCUS), and phase 2 (of $4000) by NumFOCUS
>> directly. So a big thank you to everyone who made a donation to Numpy, Scipy
>> and NumFOCUS!
>>
>> I hope that that proposal gives a clear idea of the work that's going to be
>> done over the next months. Note that the http://mingwpy.github.io contains a
>> lot more background info, description of technical issues, etc.
>>
>> Feedback & ideas very welcome of course!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>
> Hi Ralph,
>
> I've seen you drop hints about this recently, and am interested to
> follow this work.  I've been hired as part of the OpenDreamKit project
> to work, in large part, on developing a sensible toolchain for
> building and distributing Sage on Windows.  I know you've been
> following the thread on that too.  Although the primary goal there is
> "whatever works", I'm personally inclined to focus on the mingwpy /
> mingw-w64 approach, due in large part with my past success with the
> MinGW 32-bit toolchain.  (I personally have a desire to improve
> support for building with MSVC as well, but that's a less important
> goal as far as the funding is concerned.)
>
> So anyways, please keep me in the loop about this, as I will also be
> putting effort into this over the next year as well.  Has there been
> any discussion about setting up a mailing list specifically for this
> project?

Yes, it exists already, but not well advertised :
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mingwpy

It would be great to share work.

Cheers,

Matthew