[SciPy-Dev] win32 binaries and scipy 0.17.0 release

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:58:57PM +0100, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>     I think that we need to keep in mind that scipy is a library, and thus
>     can plug into a larger ecosystem. If we can provide eggs to ease fitting
>     in an existing environment, we should. I can picture eggs being useful in
>     a continuous integration framework for instance.

> (and also: eggs are the past, there's no point in spending time on
> them).  

Yes, indeed. I had wheels in mind, sorry.

>     Of course, this is a solution to avoid delaying the release, but it
>     should rather be considered as a stopgap solution than something
>     satisfactory as part of the bigger picture.

> Of course, I agree with that. The bigger picture is: move to a decent
> compiler, and provide 32-bit and 64-bit wheels on PyPi.

Right. The point that I wanted to make was that it is convenient for us
to think that our painful distribution problems are solved by
distributions such as anaconda, but we shouldn't forget about the
usecases we are leaving behind.

I have been surprised to see that in large corporations, laptops are
still often installed under Windows 32. This is of course a bit
nonsensical. I guess that these usecases should be covered by
distributions.

Gaël