[Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

[Paul Moore]

On 18 April 2014 22:40, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we can get the "pip install ipython" experience to a good
> place faster than I currently expect, and we can duck this entire
> question (at least for Windows and Mac OS X).

Huh? Last time I tried, it was pretty trivial.

pip install pyzmq pyreadline tornado ipython

(I might have missed a couple, as I did this from memory, not by
looking at the website to check). There's nothing that needs a
compiler apart from pyzmq and that has wheels for Windows these days,
and builds out of the box with no dependencies in any case. The rest
is all pure Python.

I've not tried with 2.0, but I did try one of the betas and it was
really that simple. (Windows 7 64-bit, Python 3.4 IIRC). And the 1.x
versions were just as simple.

Paul