On 19 March 2013 16:21, Steve Dower <[email protected]> wrote: > As I understand, the issue is the same as between different versions of > Python and comes down to not being able to assume a compiler on Windows > machines. It's easy to make a source file that will compile for any ABI and > platform, but distributing binaries requires each one to be built separately. > This doesn't have to be an onerous task - it can be scripted quite easily > once you have all the required compilers - but it does take more effort than > simply sharing a source file.
Another nice tool would be some sort of Windows build farm, where projects could submit a sdist and it would build wheels for a list of supported Python versions and architectures. That wouldn't work for projects with complex dependencies, obviously, but could cover a reasonable-sized chunk of PyPI (especially if dependencies could be added to the farm on request). And can I have a pony as well, of course... :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
