On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Robert Bradshaw<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
as long as you are looking for: - purely command line - don't care about compilers other than mingw - don't care about windows x64 wine is really the best solution IMHO for people who don't enjoy using windows. You can test things, install python and quite a few dependencies, generate binaries. You should always test the final product on windows in the end, though. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
