Re: RFC: building numpy against OpenBLAS.

[Mark H Weaver]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> We currently do not have a working OpenBLAS on MIPS, so the attached
>>>> patch selects OpenBLAS as an input only when not on MIPS.  Some
>>>> additional configuration happens only unless "atlas" is among the
>>>> inputs.
>>>
>>> If there are no objections I'd like to go ahead and push this patch to
>>> build numpy with OpenBLAS.  From the comments I gather that it's not as
>>> controversial a change as I suspected.
>>
>> I think we should go ahead and switch to OpenBLAS on _all_ platforms,
>> not just on MIPS.  Were there any objections to that?  If not, I'd
>> advocate just doing it.
>
> There may have been a misunderstanding: We can switch to OpenBLAS for
> all platforms _except_ MIPS because OpenBLAS currently does not build on
> MIPS.

I was indeed confused.  However, it seems that ATLAS doesn't build on
MIPS either, based on its 'supported-systems' field.

So, I come again to the same conclusion: that we should switch to
OpenBLAS on _all_ platforms, and strip away the ATLAS-handling code in
our python-numpy package.  We can work on fixing OpenBLAS to MIPS later.

What do you think?

    Thanks!
      Mark