[SciPy-Dev] Using Pythran to compile some of the scipy internals

[Serge Guelton]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 03:33:29PM +0100, Olivier Grisel wrote:
> msvc is the only supported toolchain to generate wheels that are compatible
> with the official binary distribution of Python from python.org and therefore
> the only compiler that can generate wheels suitable for distribution PyPI.

OK. I have no trouble using the VS2017 toolchain fro python3, I hope I'm not bound to VS2008 (say for Python 2.7)?

> For for the Fortran bits the story is more complicated but I guess that should
> not have any impact on the use pythran.

In spite of the name similarity, you're correct!