mingwpy project now abandoned

[carlkl]

Dear developers,

the mingwpy project is now abandoned. Reasons are lack of time and the fact the project did not achieve its goal. There is still no guarantee that this project will be resumed in another form later on.

Remaining users of mingwpy are asked to use to use either MS Visual C or the m2w64-toolchain, that includes gfortran as well. This toolchain is initiated and hosted by Anaconda.

Package builders should also take a look at the recent developments for scipy. Python packages for Windows hosted at github can now be build and integrated in to a CI environment with the help of appveyor.

Best Regards

Carl

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi Carl,

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 9:52 PM, carlkl <cmkle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear developers,

the mingwpy project is now abandoned.

First of all thank you for all the effort you (and others!) put in!

Reasons are lack of time and the fact the project did not achieve its goal.

I'd like to add a bit of perspective: MingwPy as a project/package did not reach all its goals, however some were reached and the package is in fairly widespread use). Besides that, MingwPy and your work did help to move us forward on the Windows compilation front. For example, a major motivation for starting the project was to be able to compile SciPy on Windows. This is now possible due to the efforts of quite a few people, and I don't think we would be at this point right now if MingwPy hadn't existed.

There is still no guarantee that this project will be resumed in another form later on.

 

Remaining users of mingwpy are asked to use to use either MS Visual C or the m2w64-toolchain, that includes gfortran as well. This toolchain is initiated and hosted by Anaconda.

There's no hurry for people who are currently happy with MingwPy to move though. While there won't be new releases, the current repo, wheels and conda-forge package remain available

Cheers,

Ralf

Package builders should also take a look at the recent developments for scipy. Python packages for Windows hosted at github can now be build and integrated in to a CI environment with the help of appveyor.

Best Regards

Carl

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