Ralf Gommers added the comment:
I'll note that in Numpy we have now worked around the issue (with
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4892), basically by monkeypatching
distutils and doing:
if '/MANIFEST' not in ldflags:
ldflags.append('/MANIFEST')
The bug report is still valid though; it should not be specific to numpy. A
more detailed report of what was broken before and fixed by this patch would
have been helpful. I cannot be sure that this is 100% correct because I don't
have Windows+MSVC available, but it should be this:
- Take Python 3.4 installed from the python.org .exe installer
- Create a new virtualenv and activate it
- pip install numpy==1.8.0 # this will fail
- apply the patch
- pip install numpy==1.8.0 # this will work
Furthermore I think that this is a duplicate of
http://bugs.python.org/issue4431, which is also a valid bug report confirmed by
multiple people (but closed as "not a bug").
Given that applying the patch is harmless and not applying it clearly does
create problems for users, it would make sense to apply it. But honestly, given
for how long the bug reports on 4431 were ignored, I'm not willing to spend
much effort on this. So if no one else does either, this issue may indeed just
as well be closed as outdated like Marc Lawrence suggests.
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