On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Thomas] > >> If I now build applications using numpy with py2exe for distribution, > >> what will happen on the target computers if the components are not > 'right' > >> for the actual machine type? > > [David] > > Note that the superpack is actually quite primitive: it is a nsis > > installer which encompasses actual installers built with bdist_wininst, > > the nsis being used only to detect CPU arch automatically. So if you > > need the installers as before, you can just ask nsis to extract all > > three installers I believe, from the command line. If it is a problem, > > or if we can make it easier for you, please tell us. I am the one who > > did this scheme, and I do not use py2exe (or windows for that matter), > > so I would be happy to solve the problems if you tell me how :) > > Well, the first question is: What does happen when I install the SSE3 > version > (or how it's called) on my machine, use py2exe to build an app, and this > app runs on a SSE2 machine - degraded performance, or hard crashes? > > I could probably live with the least performance, but not with the crashes > ;-). > Probably hard crashes. > > So, maybe the gui could allow to select whether to install the > high-performance > version specialized for the current cpu, or a more portable but a little > bit > slower version (I assume there is one included) that can be safely used for > py2exe. > Compiling without Atlas would probably be the safest. Chuck
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