On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Tobias Oberstein < tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de> wrote:
It is obscure. And I don't have a link, but the official Python on Windows builds are done using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.
- VS 2010 will NOT work - the free VS 2008 Express works (for 32-bit builds .. it does not include a 64-bit compiler)
To build Twisted working with official binary Python builds, the exact same compiler is needed: VS2008.
The question isn't "What compiler is needed to build Twisted?" People on this list probably know that already (I certainly do, since I set up several of Twisted's Windows buildslaves). The question is "How could a user ever hope to find out what compiler is needed to build Twisted?"
IMO, the build should figure that out (pip/easy_install). Why should I take the burden of searching through docs (however easy those may be or may not be to find), when the build tool can detect and inform me about the compiler needed?
Of course that again underlines the deficiencies glyph pointed out with pip/easy_install.
Twisted might compensate those by including detection in it's build scripts .. but that will be controversial for sure (compensating for stuff that would better be fixed elsewhere ..)
As long as the Python documentation fails to answer this question better
than it
does now (and VS2008 is not the correct answer: the correct answer _depends on the Python version_), Windows users will not have an easy time of it.
Yeah, right;) I didn't want to say Python 1.5 builds with VS2008, but the current Py2 one.
Jean-Paul
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Hi Actually, you can use VS 2010 with python but you need to modify sth. deploying python app (not only with twisted) on windows is troublesome. Sometimes, I have to manually download .msi files and execute it order by order. I am sure that 99% of windows servers don't have a working compiler no matter it is "free" or not. Regards gelin yan