On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:15 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 8:02 AM Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I spent so much time updating the wheels builds to 64 bit BLAS mostly >> because >> >> >> - I needed to actually understand how multibuild worked (and docs are >> minimal). >> - I don't know powershell (and docs are hard to find). >> - I don't know azure works at a lower level (and docs are hard to >> find). >> >> Yes, this is a problem. powershell/bash + no docs is not a recipe for success. Longer term we could move it over to cibuildwheel which has decent docs, but that in itself is a lot of work so it won't happen overnight. >> And I thought it would all be drop in easy :) What that indicates to me >> is that we could use a build expert and simpler infrastructure. Anaconda no >> doubt has people far more knowledgeable about such matters than I am. >> >> As to the twitter thread, what is the proposal(s)? >> > There's no proposal yet, still stewing a bit on it. Although maybe the first part of one is ready: no more new wheel flavors for things with <<0.5% of the user base. I'm perfectly happy to leave support for more exotic platforms to people >> who have the hardware and make use of it, but no doubt such people have the >> opposite problem of not knowing much about NumPy. >> > >> >> > Let me add that distutils brings it's own set of problems. A better build > system could help make building wheels simpler on various platforms. But > then, someone would also need to become expert in that build system. > Working on that one:) Cheers, Ralf
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