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| author | Matti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2020-01-10 01:27:45 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-01-10 01:27:45 +0200 |
| commit | 8de9a7f786ed142cadfd52844fb34d262d7637a2 (patch) | |
| tree | df8d1fcef7abeb3dc8be5cd82d8b1a8734c290c8 | |
| parent | ee7fcb790e36d940d4fde69bd1cad5048008064b (diff) | |
| parent | d7251638932ede3bb76a678559324a1e8b3ef600 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-8de9a7f786ed142cadfd52844fb34d262d7637a2.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #15242 from sethtroisi/python3_doc
DOC: Update HOWTO_RELEASE.rst
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt | 37 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt index 99f6a0e40..f201d3a77 100644 --- a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt +++ b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt @@ -40,27 +40,23 @@ Release Scripts Supported platforms and versions ================================ -Python 2.7 and >=3.4 are the currently supported versions when building from -source. We test NumPy against all these versions every time we merge code to -master. Binary installers may be available for a subset of these versions (see -below). - +`NEP 29`_ outlines which Python versions are supported; For the first half of +2020, this will be Python >= 3.6. We test NumPy against all these versions +every time we merge code to master. Binary installers may be available for a +subset of these versions (see below). OS X ---- -Python 2.7 and >=3.4 are the versions for which we provide binary installers. -OS X versions >= 10.6 are supported. We build binary wheels for OSX that are -compatible with Python.org Python, system Python, homebrew and macports - see -this `OSX wheel building summary +OS X versions >= 10.9 are supported, for Python version support see `NEP 29`_. +We build binary wheels for OSX that are compatible with Python.org Python, +system Python, homebrew and macports - see this `OSX wheel building summary <https://github.com/MacPython/wiki/wiki/Spinning-wheels>`_ for details. Windows ------- -We build 32- and 64-bit wheels for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 on Windows. Windows -XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 are supported. We build NumPy using the MSVC compilers -on Appveyor, but we are hoping to update to a `mingw-w64 toolchain -<https://mingwpy.github.io>`_. The Windows wheels use ATLAS for BLAS / LAPACK. +We build 32- and 64-bit wheels on Windows. Windows 7, 8 and 10 are supported. +We build NumPy using the `mingw-w64 toolchain`_ on Appveyor. Linux @@ -92,13 +88,24 @@ each platform. At the moment this means: - OS X builds on travis currently use `clang`. It appears that binary wheels for OSX >= 10.6 can be safely built from the travis-ci OSX 10.9 VMs when building against the Python from the Python.org installers; -- Windows builds use the MSVC version corresponding to the Python being built - against; +- Windows builds use the `mingw-w64 toolchain`_; - Manylinux1 wheels use the gcc provided on the Manylinux docker images. You will need Cython for building the binaries. Cython compiles the ``.pyx`` files in the NumPy distribution to ``.c`` files. +.. _mingw-w64 toolchain : https://mingwpy.github.io +.. _NEP 29 : https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html + +OpenBLAS +------------ +All the wheels link to a version of OpenBLAS_ supplied via the openblas-libs_ repo. +The shared object (or DLL) is shipped with in the wheel, renamed to prevent name +collisions with other OpenBLAS shared objects that may exist in the filesystem. + +.. _OpenBLAS: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS +.. _openblas-libs: https://github.com/MacPython/openblas-libs + Building source archives and wheels ----------------------------------- |