Hi, On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray+nu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> You probably know that building Numpy, Scipy and the rest of the Scipy Stack >> on Windows is problematic. And that there are plans to adopt the static >> MinGW-w64 based toolchain that Carl Kleffner has done a lot of work on for >> the last two years to fix that situation. >> >> The good news is: this has become a lot more concrete just now, with this >> proposal for funding: http://mingwpy.github.io/proposal_december2015.html >> >> Funding for phases 1 and 2 is already confirmed; the phase 3 part has been >> submitted to the PSF. Phase 1 (of $1000) is funded by donations made to >> Numpy and Scipy (through NumFOCUS), and phase 2 (of $4000) by NumFOCUS >> directly. So a big thank you to everyone who made a donation to Numpy, Scipy >> and NumFOCUS! >> >> I hope that that proposal gives a clear idea of the work that's going to be >> done over the next months. Note that the http://mingwpy.github.io contains a >> lot more background info, description of technical issues, etc. >> >> Feedback & ideas very welcome of course! >> >> Cheers, >> Ralf > > Hi Ralph, > > I've seen you drop hints about this recently, and am interested to > follow this work. I've been hired as part of the OpenDreamKit project > to work, in large part, on developing a sensible toolchain for > building and distributing Sage on Windows. I know you've been > following the thread on that too. Although the primary goal there is > "whatever works", I'm personally inclined to focus on the mingwpy / > mingw-w64 approach, due in large part with my past success with the > MinGW 32-bit toolchain. (I personally have a desire to improve > support for building with MSVC as well, but that's a less important > goal as far as the funding is concerned.) > > So anyways, please keep me in the loop about this, as I will also be > putting effort into this over the next year as well. Has there been > any discussion about setting up a mailing list specifically for this > project?
Yes, it exists already, but not well advertised : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mingwpy It would be great to share work. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
