On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Charles R Harris > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi All, > >> > > >> > Numpy 1.8 is about ready for an rc1, which brings up the question of > >> > which > >> > binary builds so put up on sourceforge. For Windows maybe > >> > > >> > 32 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC > >> > 64 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC, linked > >> > with > >> > MKL > >> > >> Are we not running into problems with scipy? > >> scipy would need to use the same libraries, AFAIU (given Fortran and > >> maybe C compatibilities) > > > > Indeed. If numpy goes MSVC + MKL, then scipy should go the same way. Some > > other options to go to MinGW 4.x are being discussed on > > https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/2829. > > Is it actually legal to distribute scipy linked with MKL? Scipy still > includes GPL code (umfpack), and shipping MKL+GPL code integrated into > a single download is extremely dicey... (this goes also for any > downstream users who might package precompiled numpy/scipy with other > packages). > Wait, we don't includes UMFPACK. We can optionally link against it, but that's not done for any of our binary (unless this was changed recently ?) > > (In either case I think we ought to just bite the bullet and get MinGW > 4.x running as a supported option, even if we don't use it for the > official binaries and even if this requires some unaesthetic hacks. I > bet we'd have more windows developers if there was an accessible way > to build on windows...) > Mingw 4 already works for compilation, no ? If not, that's definitely something to fix. The discussion around binary distribution should not preclude supporting it for people who want it. David > > -n > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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