Carl Meyer wrote: > On 05/21/2011 03:00 AM, Chris Withers wrote: >> On 20/05/2011 20:03, Carl Meyer wrote: >>> >>>> Now, if only the tools had caught up to use these :-/ >>> >>> At least one has ;-) >>> >>> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html#mirror-support >> >> It install packages with C extensions yet? > > Sure, I do it every day. You just need a compiler.
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