Hi, On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Chris Lambacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I were telling a new Windows Python user what to do to get started, I > would tell them to use easy_install because easy_install will pick up both > installers and binary eggs and do the right thing with those and > virtualenvs. > > pip on Windows is a decent into misery.
Seconded; our scientific packages use numpy (C) and scipy (C, C++ Fortran, big) and have C and sometimes Fortran extensions, so pip is more or less useless for windows, and a real PITA for anything else. Best, Matthew _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
