Hi, On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Russell E. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> In article >> <CAH6Pt5o32Otdhk2Ms5Cy5Zo=mn48h8x2wbswk92etub4mmr...@mail.gmail.com>, >> Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Russell E. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > In article >>> > <cabl7cqjacxp2grtt8hvmayajrm0xmtn1qt71wkdnbgq7dlu...@mail.gmail.com>, >>> > Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi all, >>> >> >>> >> Building binaries for releases is currently quite complex and >>> >> time-consuming. For OS X we need two different machines, because we still >>> >> provide binaries for OS X 10.5 and PPC machines. I propose to not do this >>> >> anymore. It doesn't mean we completely drop support for 10.5 and PPC, >>> >> just >>> >> that we don't produce binaries. PPC was phased out in 2006 and OS X 10.6 >>> >> came out in 2009, so there can't be a lot of demand for it (and the >>> >> download stats at >>> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.7.1/confirm this). >>> >> >>> >> Furthermore I propose to not provide 2.6 binaries anymore. Downloads of >>> >> 2.6 >>> >> OS X binaries were <5% of the 2.7 ones. We did the same with 2.4 for a >>> >> long >>> >> time - support it but no binaries. >>> >> >>> >> So what we'd have left at the moment is only the 64-bit/32-bit universal >>> >> binary for 10.6 and up. What we finally need to add is 3.x OS X binaries. >>> >> We can make an attempt to build these on 10.8 - since we have access to a >>> >> hosted 10.8 Mac Mini it would allow all devs to easily do a release >>> >> (leaving aside the Windows issue). If anyone has tried the 10.6 SDK on >>> >> 10.8 >>> >> and knows if it actually works, that would be helpful. >>> >> >>> >> Any concerns, objections? >>> > >>> > I am in strong agreement. >>> > >>> > I'll be interested to learn how you make binary installers for python >>> > 3.x because the standard version of bdist_mpkg will not do it. I have >>> > heard of two other projects (forks or variants of bdist_mpkg) that will, >>> > but I have no idea of either is supported. >>> >>> I think I'm the owner of one of the forks; I supporting it, but I >>> should certainly make a release soon too. >> >> That sounds promising. Can you suggest a non-released commit that is >> stable enough to try, or should we wait for a release? > > It has hardly changed since the Python 3 port - the current head > should be fine, I'm using it for our installers. But I will get to a > release soon.
I did a release : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bdist_mpkg/ Please let me know if you hit any problems... Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
