On 23/10/2013 15:01, Tim Golden wrote:
On 23/10/2013 14:52, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Thankfully I am. I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having
to compile code instead of having a binary install. To me it's like going
to the garage to buy a new car, being shown the parts and the tool kit and
being told to get on with it. Perhaps it's a case of second class treatment
for users of a second class OS? Ducks and runs for cover :)
And we can't understand how you can put up without source. :-) Also,
Unix isn't one platform like Windows, ABI incompatibility and all.
Really, for most things these days it's just
pip install foo
Disregarding Mark's tongue-in-cheek rhetoric for now...
Never :)
perhaps you
didn't realise that, on Windows, you can't pip install a binary (that's
a problem the new wheel format is solving). And, even if you have the
correct compiler toolchain, building more complex packages from source
can be daunting, essentially because of the lack of standard source
layout on Windows.
TJG
Thanks for the heads up. I didn't realise that wheel solved this
problem. From my viewpoint thats the bee's knees.
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