Hi, On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
I'm afraid paying for the Intel Fortran licenses won't help because the problem is in the Intel Fortran runtime license [1]. But - it would be a huge help if the PSF could help with funding to get mingw-w64 working. This is the crucial blocker for progress on binary wheels on Windows. Nathaniel - do you have any recent news on progress? Cheers, Matthew [1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/comment/1881526 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
