Changes to Twisted's binary distribution
Hi everyone, Just letting everyone know, the next release (Twisted 15.5) will not include MSI or EXE installers for Windows, only binary wheels, and installation through pip or from source dist will be the only supported method of installation. The exe/msi installers didn't work well (or at all?) for virtualenvs, and when we (eventually) start shipping binary wheels for OS X, it'll make everything more consistent. Regards, Amber "Hawkie" Brown Twisted Release manager GPG: https://keybase.io/hawkowl hawkowl@atleastfornow.net
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Amber "Hawkie" Brown < hawkowl@atleastfornow.net> wrote:
Just letting everyone know, the next release (Twisted 15.5) will not include MSI or EXE installers for Windows, only binary wheels, and installation through pip or from source dist will be the only supported method of installation. The exe/msi installers didn't work well (or at all?) for virtualenvs, and when we (eventually) start shipping binary wheels for OS X, it'll make everything more consistent.
This is tremendously welcome news. Congrats! -- Raymond Cote, President voice: +1.603.924.6079 email: rgacote@AppropriateSolutions.com skype: ray.cote
On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Ray Cote
wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Amber "Hawkie" Brown
mailto:hawkowl@atleastfornow.net> wrote: Just letting everyone know, the next release (Twisted 15.5) will not include MSI or EXE installers for Windows, only binary wheels, and installation through pip or from source dist will be the only supported method of installation. The exe/msi installers didn't work well (or at all?) for virtualenvs, and when we (eventually) start shipping binary wheels for OS X, it'll make everything more consistent. This is tremendously welcome news. Congrats!
I hope that our other efforts to stop doing things are met with such enthusiasm :-) Thanks! -glyph P.S.: seriously though this is a good move, I am also excited about it.
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Amber "Hawkie" Brown
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Glyph Lefkowitz
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Ray Cote