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

[Olivier Grisel]

2018-01-31 17:49 GMT+01:00 Serge Guelton <serge.guelton at telecom-bretagne.eu>
:

> 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)?


Unfortunately yes.  But I guess Python 2.7 support for new feature releases
of scipy will be phased out in 2019 or so, so maybe it's not that a big
problem to not provide pythran-based acceleration for Python 2. Beter not
waste too much time on Python 2 ;)

-- 
Olivier
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