How to install Python package from source on Windows
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Wed May 17 20:19:28 EDT 2017
On Thu, 18 May 2017 06:05 am, breamoreboy at gmail.com wrote:
> <quote>
> What is the problem with the documentation given here
> https://docs.python.org/devguide ?
>
> Specifically:-
>
> "and on Windows use:
>
> PCbuild\build.bat -e -d"
> </quote>
>
> That is 24 key strokes, including ENTER, to do the build on Windows. What
> is so difficult about this?
Well, for starters, I don't have Windows, so I can't use it!
*wink*
Thanks Mark for pointing this out. Twice.
Hey Bart, if you're reading this, how about answering the question: what is
so hard for Windows users about running the build.bat script that is
prepared for you?
Does it not work? If not, that's a bug.
Does it have undocumented dependencies? That's a bug.
Does it have documented but unreasonable dependencies? Well, that depends on
what is "reasonable", but that might be a good reason for a feature
request.
E.g. "support the Tiny-C compiler" might be a reasonable feature request, if
Tiny-C supports all the features used by Python.
"Don't require any C compiler at all" would be unreasonable.
--
Steve
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