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

[Olivier Grisel]

Hi!

I gave appveyor a try this WE so as to build a minimalistic Python 3
project with a Cython extension. It works both with 32 and 64 bit
MSVC++ and can generate wheel packages. See:

    https://github.com/ogrisel/python-appveyor-demo

However 2008 is not (yet) installed so it cannot be used for Python
2.7. The Feodor Fitsner seems to be open to install older versions of
MSVC++ on the worker VM image so this might be possible in the future.
Let's see.

Off-course for numpy / scipy this does not solve the fortran compiler
issue, so Carl's static mingw-w64 toolchain still looks like a very
promising solution (and could probably be run on the appveyor infra as
well).

Best,

-- 
Olivier