[Numpy-discussion] Dropping support for Accelerate

[Ilhan Polat]

That's probably because I know nothing about the issue, is there any
reference I can read about?

But in general, please feel free populate new items in the wiki page.

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> I've been wishing we'd stop shipping Accelerate for years, because of
> how it breaks multiprocessing – that doesn't seem to be on your list
> yet.
>
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Ilhan Polat <ilhanpolat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A few months ago, I had the innocent intention to wrap LDLt decomposition
> > routines of LAPACK into SciPy but then I am made aware that the minimum
> > required version of LAPACK/BLAS was due to Accelerate framework. Since
> then
> > I've been following the core SciPy team and others' discussion on this
> > issue.
> >
> > We have been exchanging opinions for quite a while now within various
> SciPy
> > issues and PRs about the ever-increasing Accelerate-related issues and
> I've
> > compiled a brief summary about the ongoing discussions to reduce the
> > clutter.
> >
> > First, I would like to kindly invite everyone to contribute and sharpen
> the
> > cases presented here
> >
> > https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Dropping-support-for-Accelerate
> >
> > The reason I specifically wanted to post this also in NumPy mailing list
> is
> > to probe for the situation from the NumPy-Accelerate perspective. Is
> there
> > any NumPy specific problem that would indirectly effect SciPy should the
> > support for Accelerate is dropped?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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