[Numpy-discussion] Scipy 2017 NumPy sprint

[Matthew Brett]

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that TravisCI does not yet have official Python support on Mac OS X,
>>>
>>> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/2312
>>>
>>> I believe it is possible to do anyway by faking it under another setting
>>> (e.g. pretend to be a generic language build, and use the system Python
>>> or install your own specific version of Python as needed), so that may be
>>> worth trying during a sprint.
>>
>>
>> That approach has worked reliably for
>> https://github.com/MacPython/numpy-wheels for a while now, so should be
>> straightforward.
>>
>> Ralf
>
> Thanks for that link - I'm going off topic but the MacPython wiki page goes
> into more background about how they build wheels for PyPI which I'm
> very interested to read up on:
>
> https://github.com/MacPython/wiki/wiki/Spinning-wheels

Yes, you'll see that the multibuild framework that numpy and scipy
uses, includes utilities to download Python.org Python and build
against that, in Spinning-wheels fashion,

Cheers,

Matthew