On Jul 13, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Because of the issues around compilation on Windows, we believe that most 
> users avoid pip in favor of precompiled installers. The model of "download an 
> executable that matches my Python version and run it" is more familiar than a 
> command line tool, and unlikely to go away anytime soon.

Luckily for them the upcoming pip 1.4 includes support for compiled packages 
called Wheels ;)

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