Hi, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> MSVC + Intel Fortran + MKL, yes. But those aren't free. So how can you >> >> provide an Amazon image for those? >> > >> > You can make an image that is not public, I guess. I suppose anyone >> > who uses the image would have to have their own licenses for the Intel >> > stuff? Does anyone have experience of this? >> >> You need to purchase one license per developer: >> >> >> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-math-kernel-library-licensing-faq#eula1 >> > > I think 64 bits on windows is best pushed off to 1.7.1 or 1.8. It would be a > bit much to get it implemented in the next week or two.
The problem with not providing these binaries is that they are at the bottom of everyone's stack, so a delay in numpy holds everyone back. I can't find completely convincing stats, but it looks as though 64 bit windows 7 is now the most common version of Windows, at least for Gamers [1] around now, and it was getting that way for everyone in 2010 [2]. It don't think it reflects well on on us that we don't appear to support 64 bits out of the box; just for example, R already has a 32 bit / 64 bit installer. If I understand correctly, the options for doing this right now are: 1) Minimal cost in time : ask Christophe nicely whether we can distribute his binaries via the Numpy page 2) Small cost in time / money : pay for licenses for Ondrej or me or someone to install the dependencies on my Berkeley machine / an Amazon image. Ralf : I suppose we qualify for the free licenses you referred to earlier ? [3] . I guess that covers us for the Numpy build? Then it's only a question of paying for ifort licenses when it comes to do the Scipy build? So, if the cost of option 2 is too high, how about option 1? Cheers, Matthew [1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey [2] http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/07/08/64-bit-momentum-surges-with-windows-7.aspx [3] http://numpy-discussion.10968.n7.nabble.com/MKL-licenses-for-core-scientific-Python-projects-td32530.html _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
