On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:41 AM Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   Apple has dropped support for Accelerate. It has bugs that have not been
   fixed, and is closed source so we cannot fix them ourselves. We have
   been getting a handful of reports from users who end up building NumPy
   on macOS, and inadvertently link to Accelerate, then end up with wrong
   linalg results. In PR 14880https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14880  I
   propose to disallow finding it when building NumPy. At this time it will
   remain in distutils as one of the backends to support users, but how do
   people feel about a future PR to totally remove it?

Someone pointed out that Apple has not officially dropped support as far as it can be 
determined. Sorry for the bad information. However, I still stand by the "has bugs 
that have not been fixed, and is closed source". An alternative to dropping 
automatic support for it would be to find a channel for engaging with Apple to report and 
fix the bugs.

Matti

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