On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> Hi Dag,
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Dag Sverre
> Seljebotn<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi cython-dev,
>>
>> Fernando Perez wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Dag,
>>>
>>> Dave Cournapeau kindly made for us win32 installers of the newest
>>> cython, since you guys don't have them on your site:
>>>
>>> https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/tmp/Cython-0.11.2.win32-py2.5.exe
>>> https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/tmp/Cython-0.11.2.win32-py2.6.exe
>>
>> Great, thanks!
>>
>> Is there somebody on the list who could more easily than myself  
>> give these a
>> test ride?
>>
>> (In addition to running the installer, a C compiler must be set up  
>> properly,
>> see
>>
>> wiki.cython.org/Installation
>>
>> and the link to Windows installation there. An alternative to  
>> creating
>> distutils.cfg (for mingw) is to pass "-c mingw" to setup.py.)
>
> I just tested this on top of a bare EPD install, and once I commented
> out the old cython egg path from the easy-install.pth file, it worked
> just fine.  So tomorrow I'll publicize it to the attendees.
>
>> I'll take this opportunity to come with a request: If somebody  
>> with easy
>> access to Windows would like to be responsible for Windows  
>> packaging of
>> Cython that would be great (as none of the core devs run Windows)  
>> -- it
>> seems that David Cournapeau has already done the dirty work, so  
>> that it
>> would likely just be about running his scripts for every Cython  
>> release and
>> test that things work properly.
>
> By the way, David did this on a wine setup he has on his Mac laptop in
> just a couple of minutes!  So it seems that once you have the right
> setup, it's not a huge deal.  Dag, since you'll get to meet David next
> week at scipy, perhaps you can get this set up as well so any of you
> can pump these out easily at release time, without needing a windows
> box (it can apparently be done on either Macs or linux, though I have
> yet to do it myself).
>
> In any case, thanks again to David C for  his help with this!

Yes, that's very nice. (My preferred way to distribute cython is via  
Sage, but that doesn't work well for windows users yet.:-)

- Robert

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