Am 23.01.2014 13:16, schrieb Paul Moore:
On 23 January 2014 11:48, Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote:
Is there a solution to this? I've seen that the wheel tool can convert
bdist_wininst installers into wheels - does this work for the packages
I mentioned above? Do we have to build or convert to wheel those
packages, and setup a central place where we store them and make them
available to our developers?
The good news is that "wheel convert XXX.exe" works on all the above
for creating a wheel from the wininst installer. The official numpy
installer uses some complex magic to select the right binaries based
on your CPU, and this means that the official numpy "superpack"
wininst files don't convert (at least I don't think they do, it's a
while since I tried). But happily, Christoph Gohlke hosts a huge list
of readymade wininst installers for hard-to-build projects, and the 3
you mention are all there. He's very good about building for latest
Pythons, too (3.4 is already there for many packages). Anyone working
on Windows who doesn't know his site
(http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) should check it out.
So, to summarise, yes, you can get wheels for pretty much everything
you need by using wheel convert on wininst installers. You do need to
manually download, run wheel convert, and host the wheels locally (a
simple directory is fine though).
Thanks Paul, for this info.
Thomas
(over to the next topic)
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