Paul Moore wrote:

If I have to guess at your reasons, my assumption would be:
- Consistent means of installing on all platforms
- ???

I can imagine that people for whom Windows is not their
primary platform might like to be able to install Python
packages the same way they do on other platforms. There's
less mental gear switching involved that way when moving
from one platform to another.

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Greg
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