On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 November 2016 at 03:56, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Such a grant was already awarded earlier this year by way of the > Scientific Python Working Group (which is a collaborative funding > initiative between the PSF and NumFocus): > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scientific/2016-January/000271.html > > However, we hadn't received a status update by the time I stepped down > from the Board, although it sounds like progress hasn't been good if > folks aren't even aware that the grant was awarded in the first place.
There's two separate projects here that turn out to be unrelated: one to get mingw-w64 support for CPython < 3.5, and one for CPython >= 3.5. (This has to do with the thing where MSVC totally redid how their C runtime works.) The grant you're thinking of is for the python < 3.5 part; what Matthew's talking about is for the python >= 3.5 part, which is a totally different plan and team. The first blocker on getting funding for the >= 3.5 project though is getting the team to write down an actual plan and cost estimate, which has not yet happened... -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
