[SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] ANN: Scipy 0.14.0 beta 1 release

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just built some scipy b1 OSX wheels, and put them here:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/scipy_installers/scipy-0.14.0b1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
> >>
> >>
> https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/scipy_installers/scipy-0.14.0b1-cp33-cp33m-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
> >>
> >> As usual, you need a recent copy of pip, setuptools:
> >>
> >> pip install --upgrade pip
> >>
> >> Then download and:
> >>
> >> pip install scipy-0.14.0b1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
> >>
> >> (for example).  Feedback welcome.
> >>
> >> I built these on 10.9 and tested on a completely bare 10.6 machine.
> >> I'll automate the build more, but for now the instructions are here:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/matthew-brett/delocate
> >
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> > This reminded me of https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/2829 again.
> Imho
> > we should drop support for <Win7 in the official installers and use a
> > similar approach with private dlls for Windows.
>
> That seems reasonable to me.  Is there any way of estimating how many
> Windows XP users are downloading the .exe installers these days?
>
> David C - what do you think about something like this?
>

Dropping support for XP is fine by me as long as we are only talking about
the official installers (e.g. building numpy with MSVC should stilll work
on XP) . It is only a data point, but @ Enthought, we have quite a few
customers on XP. I would not go as far as saying that's the most common
version of windows, but that's not the least common either.

I would also reiterate my plea to avoid any PATH or pre-loading. Every
library that does this has been a constant source of pain in my experience:
embedding, integration with large 3rd party framework (especially the ones
using multi-threading), etc...  We remove it in every library we support @
Enthought (e.g. pytables 2.x)

IMO, installing the mingw DLLs is the least bad option.

David


>
> >> I'd like to volunteer to build wheels for the next pre-release.  Ralf
> >> - would you mind giving me permission to upload?
> >
> >
> > Great! Done for both SF and (for final releases) PyPi.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Matthew
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