On 4 December 2013 21:13, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Besides the issues you mention, the problem is that it creates a single > point of failure. I really appreciate everything Christoph does, but it's > not appropriate as the default way to provide binary releases for a large > number of projects. There needs to be a reproducible way that the devs of > each project can build wheels - this includes the right metadata, but > ideally also a good way to reproduce the whole build environment including > compilers, blas/lapack implementations, dependencies etc. The latter part is > probably out of scope for this list, but is discussed right now on the > numfocus list.
You're right - what I said ignored the genuine work being done by the rest of the scientific community to solve the real issues involved. I apologise, that wasn't at all fair. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig