Hi, Andreas Kloeckner <li...@informa.tiker.net> writes: > Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at> writes: >> >> alright, some progress here: Installed Python, the Windows SDK, and >>>> NumPy as described. Then things got complicated: >>>> - Had to install setuptools. This should be mentioned in the README. >>>> - python and git need to be in PATH for `python setup.py build` to >>>> work. This is a nontrivial step, since both python and git by default >>>> are not in PATH. >>> >>> Right -- so I've assumed that you have a working python and git >>> installation; it seemed fair to assume that, if you want to install from >>> source and want to be using Python, you'd have both set up. > > Git should be thoroughly optional. It should only get used if you're > working off of a git checkout (in which case it's somewhat reasonable to > assume that there's git on the machine). But even then, failing git > invocations should only lead to warnings, not errors.
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