On 3 November 2016 at 00:02, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anaconda has an overwhelming advantage on Windows, in that Continuum > can bear the licensing liabilities enforced by the Intel Fortran > compiler, and we can not. We therefore have no license-compatible > Fortran compiler for Python 3.5 - so we can't build scipy, and that's > a full stop for the scipy stack. I'm sure you know, but the only > practical open-source option is mingw-w64, that does not work with the > Microsoft runtime used by Python 3.5 [1]. It appears the only person > capable of making mingw-w64 compatible with this runtime is Ray > Donnelly, who now works for Continuum, and we haven't yet succeeded in > finding the 15K USD or so to pay Continuum for his time.
Is this something the PSF could assist with? Either in terms of funding work to get mingw-w64 working, or in terms of funding (or negotiating) Intel Fortran licenses for the community? Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
