On 03/20/2013 04:42 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
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... :-)
This also came up in the discussion over on
http://simeonfranklin.com/blog/2013/mar/17/my-pycon-2013-poster/
I was pointed to an interesting resource:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
(The security issues with that arrangement are non-trivial, but the
convenience factor is huge)
Cheers,
Nick.
Well a few other links:
http://winbot.zope.org
https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.wineggbuilder
https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.winbot
I can tell you getting such a beast to work takes quite some time.
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