[SciPy-Dev] Using Pythran to compile some of the scipy internals

[Sylvain Corlay]

It is actually possible to compiler Windows Python 2.7 extension with more
modern compilers than VS2008, and it works well.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel at ensta.org>
wrote:

> 2018-01-31 17:49 GMT+01:00 Serge Guelton <serge.guelton at telecom-
> bretagne.eu>:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 03:33:29PM +0100, Olivier Grisel wrote:
>> > msvc is the only supported toolchain to generate wheels that are
>> compatible
>> > with the official binary distribution of Python from python.org and
>> therefore
>> > the only compiler that can generate wheels suitable for distribution
>> PyPI.
>>
>> OK. I have no trouble using the VS2017 toolchain fro python3, I hope I'm
>> not bound to VS2008 (say for Python 2.7)?
>
>
> Unfortunately yes.  But I guess Python 2.7 support for new feature
> releases of scipy will be phased out in 2019 or so, so maybe it's not that
> a big problem to not provide pythran-based acceleration for Python 2. Beter
> not waste too much time on Python 2 ;)
>
> --
> Olivier
>
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