David Cournapeau wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Robert > Bradshaw<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> >>>>> This is really great: the setup takes a few minutes, and now I don't >>>>> even have to fire up VirtualBox and spend any time in the >>>>> godforsaken >>>>> hell that is Windows to build installers for code with C extensions! >>>> There is no reason for this language, there are a lot of us who like >>>> Windows, and if you look at the numpy/scipy mailinglist then the only >>>> build issues are with the hundreds of versions of unix/linux. >>> Your statement here in turn provokes me. I'd like to try to stop short >>> of a flamewar, but I have to say something: >> Maybe we need a cython-flames list. On a more serious note, thanks to >> all for keeping the discussion relatively civil. I think the main >> point above is the excitement that the important target audience >> using Windows can be more easily supported by those who don't enjoy >> using it. >> >>> I'm always tempted to say that I believe Cython should simply say that >>> we do not support Windows, or Visual C, until we can AT THE VERY LEAST >>> find one user who actually use Windows on a daily basis who volunteers >>> to do the relatively trivial task of testing new releases and >>> packaging >>> it for exe distribution about four times a year. >> >> I don't think we have to outright drop support, as it seems to mostly >> work most of the time (the messiness of distuitls is not our issue, >> as long as we get the .c files right). But it is untested and I would >> love for someone who knows and uses windows to step up and do testing >> an packaging. Perhaps much could be automated as above, but I >> wouldn't even know what I'm looking for. > > as long as you are looking for: > - purely command line > - don't care about compilers other than mingw > - don't care about windows x64
Hmm. If you wanted to start writing parts of NumPy in Cython, you'd need for Cython to support Windows x64 and Visual C though? (Background note: There's been some talk about that, although no decision has been made to my knowledge. scipy's got some Cython code in it though.) -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
