[Distutils] pip on windows experience

[Thomas Heller]

Am 23.01.2014 13:16, schrieb Paul Moore:
> On 23 January 2014 11:48, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
>> Is there a solution to this?  I've seen that the wheel tool can convert
>> bdist_wininst installers into wheels - does this work for the packages
>> I mentioned above?  Do we have to build or convert to wheel those
>> packages, and setup a central place where we store them and make them
>> available to our developers?
>
> The good news is that "wheel convert XXX.exe" works on all the above
> for creating a wheel from the wininst installer. The official numpy
> installer uses some complex magic to select the right binaries based
> on your CPU, and this means that the official numpy "superpack"
> wininst files don't convert (at least I don't think they do, it's a
> while since I tried). But happily, Christoph Gohlke hosts a huge list
> of readymade wininst installers for hard-to-build projects, and the 3
> you mention are all there. He's very good about building for latest
> Pythons, too (3.4 is already there for many packages). Anyone working
> on Windows who doesn't know his site
> (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) should check it out.
>
> So, to summarise, yes, you can get wheels for pretty much everything
> you need by using wheel convert on wininst installers. You do need to
> manually download, run wheel convert, and host the wheels locally (a
> simple directory is fine though).

Thanks Paul, for this info.

Thomas
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