On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, David Cournapeau<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Is it possible these days to build Python from source using mingw + wine? You suggest that above, and this makes me very excited, because it used to be very hard to do that. William _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
