Hi Reinout,
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Reinout van Rees wrote:
On 30-06-12 16:22, Luke Plant wrote:
Also, in Django to date we've eschewed external dependencies. That has
been partly due to the poor and confusing state of Python packaging,
which is hopefully improving.
[snip]
Our current recommended installation method is via pip [2], and we would
be doing our users a disservice to recommend otherwise.
Slight warning: everyone recommends pip, but watch out with windows. Pip
doesn't support binary eggs (which easy_install does), so all those python
database drivers will need to be compiled.
Good point, thanks.
And virtualenv/pip defaults to a nicely isolated virtualenv, so the
clicky-clicky-install python database drivers (and other binary eggs)
won't get used.
So: pip sounds great right until you need binaries on windows.
The virtualenv inherits system-wide packages. So you can install whatever
binary packages you need system-wide, either using easy_install or an MSI,
and pip won't try (and fail) to install them again unless they don't meet
the version requirements of the pip manifest.
Cheers, Chris.
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