On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:17 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Building binaries for releases is currently quite complex and >> time-consuming. For OS X we need two different machines, because we still >> provide binaries for OS X 10.5 and PPC machines. I propose to not do this >> anymore. It doesn't mean we completely drop support for 10.5 and PPC, just >> that we don't produce binaries. PPC was phased out in 2006 and OS X 10.6 >> came out in 2009, so there can't be a lot of demand for it (and the >> download stats at >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.7.1/ confirm this). >> >> Furthermore I propose to not provide 2.6 binaries anymore. Downloads of >> 2.6 OS X binaries were <5% of the 2.7 ones. We did the same with 2.4 for a >> long time - support it but no binaries. >> >> So what we'd have left at the moment is only the 64-bit/32-bit universal >> binary for 10.6 and up. What we finally need to add is 3.x OS X binaries. >> We can make an attempt to build these on 10.8 - since we have access to a >> hosted 10.8 Mac Mini it would allow all devs to easily do a release >> (leaving aside the Windows issue). If anyone has tried the 10.6 SDK on 10.8 >> and knows if it actually works, that would be helpful. >> > > I am not sure one can use 10.6 SDK on 10.8 ? I am actually looking into > those issues for our mac support at Enthought > > Are you here for euroscipy ? > Yes, I'll be there from tomorrow till Sunday. Ralf
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