Re: Confused with installing per-user in Windows

2016-11-06 Thread Ivan Pozdeev via Python-list
On 07.11.2016 4:11, ddbug wrote: Dear experts, I need to install some scripts for current user (to skip sudo, UAC popups and whatever). So I make a sdist and use python -m pip install --user This should work for either Python 2 or 3. On Linux, pip installs the scripts into ~/.local/bin

What is currently the recommended way to work with a distutils-based setup.py that requires compilation?

2016-11-06 Thread Ivan Pozdeev via Python-list
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers has now completely replaced instructions for `distutils`-based packages (starting with `from distutils.core import setup`) with ones for `setuptools`-based ones (starting with `from setuptools import setup`). However, if I have a `distutils`-based