[Numpy-discussion] 64-bit windows numpy / scipy wheels for testing

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  It looks like
> 99% of Windows users do have SSE2 though [1].  So I think what is
> required is
>
> * Build the wheels for 32-bit (easy)
> * Patch the wheels to check and give helpful error in absence of SSE2
> (fairly easy)
> * Get agreement these should go up on pypi and be maintained (feedback
> anyone?)
>

+Inf

It would benefit the community a LOT to have binary wheels up on PyPi, and
the very small number of failures due to old  hardware will be no big deal,
as long as the users get a meaningful message, rather than a hard crash.

-Chris



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