On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

No need to apologize at all.

Ralf
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