[SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] ANN: Scipy 0.14.0 beta 1 release

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
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>> Hi,
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>> I just built some scipy b1 OSX wheels, and put them here:
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>> https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/scipy_installers/scipy-0.14.0b1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
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>> https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/scipy_installers/scipy-0.14.0b1-cp33-cp33m-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
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>> As usual, you need a recent copy of pip, setuptools:
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>> pip install --upgrade pip
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>> Then download and:
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>> pip install scipy-0.14.0b1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
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>> (for example).  Feedback welcome.
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>> I built these on 10.9 and tested on a completely bare 10.6 machine.
>> I'll automate the build more, but for now the instructions are here:
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>> https://github.com/matthew-brett/delocate
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> Nice.
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> This reminded me of https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/2829 again. Imho
> we should drop support for <Win7 in the official installers and use a
> similar approach with private dlls for Windows.

That seems reasonable to me.  Is there any way of estimating how many
Windows XP users are downloading the .exe installers these days?

David C - what do you think about something like this?

>> I'd like to volunteer to build wheels for the next pre-release.  Ralf
>> - would you mind giving me permission to upload?
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> Great! Done for both SF and (for final releases) PyPi.

Thanks a lot,

Matthew