[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.8.1 release

[Olivier Grisel]

2014-03-28 23:13 GMT+01:00 Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Olivier Grisel
> <olivier.grisel at ensta.org> wrote:
>> This is great! Has anyone started to work on OSX whl packages for
>> scipy? I assume the libgfortran, libquadmath & libgcc_s dylibs will
>> not make it as easy as for numpy. Would it be possible to use a static
>> gcc toolchain as Carl Kleffner is using for his experimental windows
>> whl packages?
>
> Yes, these are already done for the beta release, and for matplotlib:
>
> https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/scipy_installers/
>
> Luckily OSX has a sensible way of setting relative paths to required
> libraries, so it's pretty easy to copy the required dlls into the
> binary distribution:
>
> https://github.com/matthew-brett/delocate

Great! Do you think it would be possible to upload such a delocated
.whl package for scipy 0.13.3 on pypi if all tests pass?

Bonus question: do you think a similar solution could work for windows
and / or linux?

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Olivier
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