On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Christopher Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/25/11 4:25 PM, Mike Orr wrote: >> >> Just a reminder that pip can *not* install binary eggs. > > What a great opportunity for someone to contribute! It really shouldn't be > that hard -- installing a binary egg is pretty much just copying it to the > right place. Plenty of complication it determining which binary egg matches > the system, though, particularly on OS-X. > > Is see this on the pip PyPi page: > > """ > It cannot install from eggs. It only installs from source. (In the future it > would be good if it could install binaries from Windows .exe or .msi -- > binary install on other platforms is not a priority.) > """ > > so it's on the list. However, I think they are wrong about other platforms > not being a priority -- it should be on OS-X, too, building binaries on OS-X > can be very painful.
It just means it's not a priority for Ian Bicking who wrote Pip. It could be a priority for someone else who uses Windows and wants to maintain that part of it. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
