Hi, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
In order not to leave this discussion without a resolution: Christophe - would you allow us to distribute your numpy binaries for 1.7 from the numpy sourceforge page? Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion