[SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] ANN: Scipy 0.15.0 beta 1 release

[Sturla Molden]

Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> The mingw-w64 approach is very promising, but we ain't there yet. Even
> some intensive debugging over the last few weeks [1] (it turns out
> mingw-w64 has buggy thread+floating point stuff, workaroundable for
> our purposes), the numpy test suite still isn't fully passing. 

Well, it is CPython (compiled with MSVC) that spawns threads, so I don't
really see how this behavior can be blamed on mingw-w64?


> There's
> also this:
>    http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/31768118/
> And nevermind all the projects downstream that use f2py.

This is related to libwinpthread, which is not used by SciPy AFAIK. But
perhaps at some point we would like to use OpenMP?


Sturla