Re: RFC: building numpy against OpenBLAS.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

>>> 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.

~~ Ricardo