Ralf, Thanks for doing all this!
> Building binaries for releases is currently quite complex and > time-consuming. It sure would be nice to clean that up. 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. Adding 2.6 is not a huge deal, but I agree -- what's the point? And it really is time to drop PPC an 10.5, though I'd be interested to see if anyone IS still using it. > 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. haven't tried it yet, but it should be doable -- if a pain and a laudable goal. > Any concerns, objections? nope -- good plan. Note that I am trying to unify some of this binary building -- the same techniques used for matplotlib and useful for other packages, too (numpy/scipy for sure), but also PIL, netCDF, who knows what? I'll post here when I get a little further and there is something for others to look at and/or contribute to. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
