[Distutils] pip on windows experience

[Matthew Iversen]

Might I suggest you could upload some wheels (both windows and linux) to
testpypi, which afaik is pretty much made for this purpose?

https://wiki.python.org/moin/TestPyPI

People can easily install then with e.g. `pip install --index-url
https://testpypi.python.org/pypi numpy`, and see what tends to break or
what doesn't.


On 24 January 2014 05:52, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Oscar Benjamin <
> oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:16:02PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
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>> > 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).
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>> It's probably worth noting that numpy are toying around with wheels and
>> have uploaded a number of them to PyPI for testing:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/wheels_to_test/
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>> Currently there are only OSX wheels there (excluding the puer Python
>> ones) and they're not available on PyPI. I assume that they're waiting
>> for a solution for the Windows installer (a post-install script for
>> wheels). That would give a lot more impetus to put wheels up on PyPI.
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> Indeed. We discussed just picking the SSE2 or SSE3 build and putting that
> up as a wheel, but that was deemed a not so great idea:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/56072
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> The Sourceforge OSX wheels are presumably not getting that much use
>> right now. The OSX-specific numpy wheel has been downloaded 4 times in
>> the last week: twice on Windows and twice on Linux!
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> Some feedback from the people who did try those wheels would help. I asked
> for that on the numpy list after creating them, but didn't get much. So I
> haven't been in a hurry to move them over to PyPi.
>
> Ralf
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