On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote: >>> I'm actually not sure, why. I think the issue is making sure that the >>> release manager can actually "build" NumPy without having to buy a >>> particular compiler. >> >> The MS Express editions, while not open source, are free-to-use, and work >> fine. >> >> Not sure what what do about Fortran, though, but that's a scipy, not a >> numpy issue, yes? > > fortran is the issue. Having one or two licenses of say Intel Fortran > compiler is not enough because it makes it difficult for people to > build on top of scipy.
There seems to be a 64-bit version of mingw -- I assume this runs into the same issue that numpy has with new versions of 32-bit mingw? Would it work if that issue were fixed? -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
