On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if we could finally move to a more recent version of > compilers for official win32 installers. This would of course concern > the next release cycle, not the ones where beta/rc are already in > progress. > > Basically, the pros: > - we will have to move at some point > - gcc 4.* seem less buggy, especially C++ and fortran. > - no need to maintain msvcr90 vodoo > The cons: > - it will most likely break the ABI > - we need to recompile atlas (but I can take care of it) > - the biggest: it is difficult to combine gfortran with visual > studio (more exactly you cannot link gfortran runtime to a visual > studio executable). The only solution I could think of would be to > recompile the gfortran runtime with Visual Studio, which for some > reason does not sound very appealing :) > > Thoughts ?
Does this make any difference for producing 64bit Windows installers? Peter _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
