[Numpy-discussion] 1.8.1rc1 on sourceforge.

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Charles R Harris <
>> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> That would be helpful. Ralf does those now and I suspect he would
>>> welcome the extra hands. The two sites for release builds are Sourceforge
>>> and Pypi. I don't know if the wheels builds are good enough/accepted on
>>> Pypi,
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>> Would anyone decide that other than this group?
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>>>  but if you would like permissions on Sourceforge we can extend them to
>>> you. We have been trying to do releases for OSX 1.5, which needs a machine
>>> running an obsolete OS, but perhaps we should consider dropping that in the
>>> future.
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>> Drop that baby!
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>> First, it's bit odd -- as I undertand it, the python.org builds support
>> either 10.3.9 + or 10.6+. As 10.5 has not been supported for Apple for a
>> couple years, and 10.6 is getting pretty darn long in the tooth, the only
>> reason to support that older build is for PPC support - I wonder how many
>> folks are still running PPCs? I thought I was one of the hold outs, and I
>> dropped it over a year ago. I'd love to know if it is something that the
>> community still needs to support.
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> Now that I look on sourceforge, I don't see any OS X 10.5 builds, they are
> all 10.6+. So that bit of support seems to have dropped in reality, if not
> officially.
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The last release to support earlier than that was 1.7.1, which supported
10.3 and that has 643 downloads total.

Chuck
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