Hi, On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 November 2016 at 03:56, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But - it would be a huge help if the PSF could help with funding to >> get mingw-w64 working. This is the crucial blocker for progress on >> binary wheels on Windows. > > Such a grant was already awarded earlier this year by way of the > Scientific Python Working Group (which is a collaborative funding > initiative between the PSF and NumFocus): > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scientific/2016-January/000271.html > > However, we hadn't received a status update by the time I stepped down > from the Board, although it sounds like progress hasn't been good if > folks aren't even aware that the grant was awarded in the first place.
Ah no, that was a related project, but for a different set of work. Specifically that was a 5K grant to Carl Kleffner to configure and package up the mingw-w64 compilers to make it easier to build extensions for Pythons prior to 3.5 - see [1]. Cheers, Matthew [1] https://mingwpy.github.io/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
