Adam GROSZER, 18.10.2011 08:56:
someone, please compile and upload windows binaries to pypi.
Many users forget that providing Windows builds actually costs time and money. Sometimes, they can be built with free software, in which case
On 10/18/2011 02:41 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: they
cost only time, but that, at least to some people, is also money.
In short, you get what you've paid for.
That being said, Christoph Gohlke provides unofficial Windows builds of lxml. I can't make any guarantees for them, because they are binary builds, but I'm certainly grateful that he does it because then I don't have to.
The teeny-tiny problems with that: 1. zc.buildout uses pypi 2. windows users usually have no compiler 3. having no binaries on pypi and no compiler wrecks buildout http://winbot.zope.org/builders/z3c.form_py_265_32/builds/312 4. adding differences between linux and win buildouts s...s 5. /me gets bugged https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2011-October/043565.html 6. providing binaries works well for zope/ZTK -- Best regards, Adam GROSZER -- Quote of the day: Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. - C.S. Lewis