Hi Matthew,

I can make it in the late evening (MEZ timezone), so you have to wait a bit
... I also will try to create new numpy/scipy wheels. I now have the latest
OpenBLAS version ready. Olivier gaves me access to rackspace. I wil try it
out on the weekend.

Regards

Carl




2014-07-03 12:46 GMT+02:00 Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com>:

> I guess this one's mainly for Carl:
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On 02/07/14 19:55, Chris Barker wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Indeed -- the default (i.e what you get with pip install numpy) should
> >>> be SSE2 -- I":d much rather have a few folks with old hardware have to
> >>> go through some hoops that n have most people get something that is
> >>> "much slower than MATLAB".
> >>
> >>
> >> I think we should use SSE3 as default. It is already ten years old. Most
> >> users (99.999 %) who want binary wheels have an SSE3 capable CPU.
> >
> > The 99% for SSE2 comes from the Firefox crash reports, where the large
> > majority are for very recent Firefox downloads.
> >
> > If you can identify SSE3 machines from the reported CPU string (as the
> > Firefox people did for SSE2), please do have a look a see if you can
> > get a count for SSE3 in the Firefox crash reports; if it's close to
> > 99% that would make a strong argument:
> >
> > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Windows-versions#sse--sse2
> > https://gist.github.com/matthew-brett/9cb5274f7451a3eb8fc0
>
> Jonathan Helmus recently pointed out https://ci.appveyor.com in a
> discussion on the scikit-image mailing list.  The scikit-image team
> are trying to get builds and tests working there.  The configuration
> file allows arbitrary cmd and powershell commands executed in a clean
> Windows virtual machine.  Do you think it would be possible to get the
> wheel builds working on something like that?  That would be a big step
> forward, just because the current procedure is rather fiddly, even if
> not very difficult.
>
> Any news on the pull request to numpy?  Waiting eagerly :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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