On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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! > More good news: the PSF has approved phase 3! > > >> 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. > That's good to hear Erik. > (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? > We'll definitely keep you in the loop. We try to do as much of the discussion as possible on the mingwpy mailing list and on https://github.com/mingwpy. If there's significant progress then I guess that'll be announced on this list as well. Cheers, Ralf > 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 >
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