Andrew Nelson

> Most of the tools, in particular Jax has very little care for native environments. Interested to know more in that regard. E.g. Are there things that escape an environment?

It should also be possible to build the ppc64le and s390x wheels on GHA using QEMU. THe cibuildwheel documentation lists how this is done: https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq/#emulation

`differentiate` is great, but it's for a very specific task. I would hazard a guess that `optimize._numdiff.approx_derivative` would offer 90% of what people wanted. Perhaps we could make that public?...

> scalar derivatives, Jacobians, and Hessians Clarity of scope and naming is important. If I see `derivative, jacobian, hessian` I would assume that they would differentiate anything, including the general...

`musllinux_x86_64` wheels for scipy and numpy are now available from https://anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly. There is still a discussion to be had on releasing them to PyPI, so the wheels remain 'unofficial' for...

After trying lots of CI debugging I decided to try and build the package on cirrus-ci outside of cibuildwheel, using the [email protected] installed by homebrew. When I pip install numpy...

I've found the smoking gun. In [this run](https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/task/5304706976186368/logs/cibuildwheel.log) I use ``` echo $(python -c "import platform;print(platform.python_version());print(platform.system());print(platform.machine())") echo $(pip --version) ``` in the `CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD` script. The output from this is: ```...

Over on https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/17077 (where I also asked this question) @rgommers pointed out that the official Python 3.8 installer doesn't have arm64 support. So perhaps it's not possible to build arm64...

If it's only possible to build on 3.8 by cross-compilation, then this should be outlined in the documentation somewhere because the are probably a lot of projects that require a...

I think it is localised to 3.8. However, there's several errors that are clouding things, so I'm trying to work through those first. If it is localised to 3.8 I'll...