On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> This is really great: the setup takes a few minutes, and now I don't >>> even have to fire up VirtualBox and spend any time in the >>> godforsaken >>> hell that is Windows to build installers for code with C extensions! >> >> There is no reason for this language, there are a lot of us who like >> Windows, and if you look at the numpy/scipy mailinglist then the only >> build issues are with the hundreds of versions of unix/linux. > > Your statement here in turn provokes me. I'd like to try to stop short > of a flamewar, but I have to say something:
Maybe we need a cython-flames list. On a more serious note, thanks to all for keeping the discussion relatively civil. I think the main point above is the excitement that the important target audience using Windows can be more easily supported by those who don't enjoy using it. > I'm always tempted to say that I believe Cython should simply say that > we do not support Windows, or Visual C, until we can AT THE VERY LEAST > find one user who actually use Windows on a daily basis who volunteers > to do the relatively trivial task of testing new releases and > packaging > it for exe distribution about four times a year. I don't think we have to outright drop support, as it seems to mostly work most of the time (the messiness of distuitls is not our issue, as long as we get the .c files right). But it is untested and I would love for someone who knows and uses windows to step up and do testing an packaging. Perhaps much could be automated as above, but I wouldn't even know what I'm looking for. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
