On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This Windows installer is problematic. We are not really able to test
>> it. I think we should probably stop making it. For one thing, it
>> doesn't work everywhere (e.g., you can't make a 64-bit installer
>> unless you are using Windows). If there is interest, I can try to
>> debug and fix it, but otherwise, I think we should just stop making
>> them.
>>
>> My recommendation to anyone installing on Windows is to just use
>> Anaconda.  See http://docs.sympy.org/latest/install.html#anaconda.
>> That will just work, and if it doesn't, Continuum has the resources to
>> fix the problem. And it comes with a bunch of other stuff like the
>> IPython notebook and matplotlib that you might find useful when using
>> SymPy.
>
> Did y'all try the installer at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

Thanks! I hope this does it:-)

>
> I'm happy to help with the windows installer.
>
> We have a windows 7 64 bit machine you are also welcome to use; Ondrej
> has login and remote desktop access to that, I can give access to
> anyone who needs it.
>
> The question of whether to defer to (Canopy, Anaconda) has come up a
> few times on various lists.  It seems to me that has some serious
> risks that we can avoid by making good windows installers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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