On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 5:27 AM Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > That's been tried, repeatedly. I would suggest not to spend time on that. Apple knows, they have just decided it's not important to them. Spending time on contributing to either OpenBLAS or BLIS/libFLAME seems like a more useful activity. Cheers, Ralf
_______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
