Paul Moore wrote:
2009/10/9 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>:
Ian Bicking <ianb <at> colorstudy.com> writes:
Someone mentioned that easy_install provided some things pip didn't;
outside of multi-versioned installs (which I'm not very enthusiastic
about) I'm not sure what this is?
http://pip.openplans.org/#differences-from-easy-install
If it's obsolete the website should be updated...
Specifically, combine "only installs from source" with "might not work
on Windows" and the result is pretty certainly unusable for C
extensions on Windows. You can pretty much guarantee that the average
user on Windows won't have a C compiler[1], and even if they do, they
won't be able to carefully line up all the 3rd party C libraries
needed to build some extensions.
Binary packages are essential on Windows.
Definitely. Most Windows users won't have any compilers let alone 2.
Michael
Paul.
[1] Heck, some extensions only build with mingw, others only build
with MSVC. You need *two* compilers :-(
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