hi chuck,

this is shahrokh mortazavi from microsoft (proj lead on PTVS 
http://pytools.codeplex.com .

1. 1st - thank you and everyone else involved for helping creating, maintain & 
deliver these libraries esp on windows.
2. you shouldn't have any issues w licenses on windows.  contact me directly & 
i'll provide you msdn licenses.  i chat w friends at intel to provide fortran 
if required as well.

cheers,

s
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From: numpy-discussion-boun...@scipy.org <numpy-discussion-boun...@scipy.org> 
on behalf of Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:04 PM
To: numpy-discussion
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Binary releases

Hi All,

Numpy 1.8 is about ready for an rc1, which brings up the question of which 
binary builds so put up on sourceforge. For Windows maybe

  1.  32 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC
  2.  64 bit windows, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with MSVC, linked 
with MKL

I think these should be good for both windows 7 and window 8, correct me if I 
am wrong. For Mac there is first the question of OS X versions, (10.5?), 10.6, 
10.7, 10.8. I don't know if some builds work on more than one OS X version. The 
10.5 version is a bit harder to come by than 10.6 and up. It looks like 10.9 is 
coming up, but it isn't out yet. I have no idea what Python version to match up 
these, but assuming all of them, then

  1.  OS X 10.6  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler, 
linked with Accelerate.
  2.  OS X 10.7  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler, 
linked with Accelerate.
  3.  OS X 10.8  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler, 
linked with Accelerate.

That seems like a lot. It is fairly easy to compile from source on the mac 
these days, are all those binary packages really needed?

I don't know what I am doing with the binary stuff, so any suggestions are 
welcome.

For building it is possible to set up a Macintosh with vmware fusion to handle 
all of these, but there is time and money involved in that. Any one who is 
already capable of doing some of these builds is welcome to volunteer. Note, 
Intel has offered MKL licenses to the open source projects under the NumFocus 
umbrella, but I don't know of anyone who has taken advantage of that yet or how 
much time it will take to go through the undoubtedly needed paper work, but I 
would like to get some of those licenses and move to MSVC so that we can stop 
rolling around gasping in pain whenever it comes to window builds. Then there 
is Fortran for windows...

Thoughts?

Chuck
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