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. Paul. [1] Heck, some extensions only build with mingw, others only build with MSVC. You need *two* compilers :-( _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
