On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> > >> Why not just release numpy 1.8 with the old and terrible system? As > >> you know I'm 110% in favor of getting rid of it, but 1.8 is ready to > >> go and 1.9 is coming soon enough, and the old and terrible system does > >> work right now, today. None of the other options have this property. > The above makes a lot of sense, so I decided to check that it actually does work. Unsurprisingly, it needs fixing: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/3760 Ralf > > > > On the down side, the "old and terrible system" does not > > cover providing pre-built binaries for 64 bit Windows. > > > > Doing that right is important not just for SciPy but for any > > other downstream package including C code compiled > > against the NumPy C API (and the people doing this > > probably will only have access to free compilers). > > That's not a downside -- that's the situation right now and will > continue to be the situation for the immediate future, if we cut a > 1.8rc1 tomorrow and also if we don't cut a 1.8rc1 tomorrow. Again, I'm > absolutely behind getting this sorted out, but holding up the release > on all platforms is not going to make win64 standalone binaries appear > any faster, and in the mean time everyone seems to be getting along > OK, either because they're using a distribution, are on another > platform, or taking advantage of Cristoph's generosity (thank you > Cristoph!). > > Worst case, if it all gets sorted out next week we could release an > 1.8.1 to celebrate... > > -n > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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