Hi, On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Stefan van der Walt >> >> <stef...@berkeley.edu> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi everyone, >> >>> >> >>> As many of you know, speed has been a point of contention in >> >>> scikit-image for a long time. We've made a very deliberate decision >> >>> to >> >>> focus on writing high-level, understandable code (via Python and >> >>> Cython): both to lower the barrier to entry for newcomers, and to >> >>> lessen >> >>> the burden on maintainers. But execution time comparisons, vs OpenCV >> >>> e.g., left much to be desired. >> >>> >> >>> I think we have hit a turning point in the road. Binary wheels for >> >>> Numba (actually, llvmlite) were recently uploaded to PyPi, making this >> >>> technology available to users on both pip and conda installations. >> >>> The >> >>> importance of this release on pypi should not be dismissed, and I am >> >>> grateful to the numba team and Continuum for making that decision. >> >> >> >> >> >> Agreed. Note that there are no Windows wheels up on PyPI (yet, or not >> >> coming?). Given that there are no SciPy wheels for Windows either I >> >> don't >> >> think that that changes your argument much - people should just use a >> >> binary >> >> distribution on Windows - but I thought I'd point it out anway. >> > >> > We might be close to a working scipy wheel - discussion evolving over >> > at https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/7551#issuecomment-314922271 >> >> Following up on my own post - updates on progress for a scipy wheel here: >> >> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/759 >> >> > If we do succeed, that would make the lack of a numba wheel for >> > Windows much more significant. >> > >> > Does anyone know Continuum's plans in this matter? Is the numba >> > wheel recipe open-source? >> >> Can anyone comment here? >> >> The basic question is - what would happen if Continuum stopped >> supplying a pypi wheel? If the answer is the standard open source >> answer - someone else would take over pretty quickly - that's fine. >> Otherwise, it's a problem. > > > Can't read their mind, but did look at the build instructions. Doesn't look > that hard to build and package, if the need arises (which is unlikely). And > the current wheels will not disappear. So I don't really see an issue.
Just FYI - after a lot of hard work over at https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7616 - mostly by Github user Xoviat - we can now build Scipy wheels for Windows. I guess they'll come out at the next Scipy release if not before. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ scikit-image mailing list scikit-image@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-image
