On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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, This status update was sent to the PSF board in June: http://mingwpy.github.io/roadmap.html#status-update-june-16. Up until that report the progress was good, but after that progress has stalled due to unavailability for private reasons of Carl Kleffner (the main author of MingwPy). Ralf > > 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 >
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