[Numpy-discussion] Compiling for free on Windows32

[Fadhley Salim]

Eggs are still beneficial:

* People who do not have access to PyPi can still use it (think banks)
* If you can build eggs easily then so can people like me... it becomes
easy to produce optimized eggs for all our Xeon processors. 
* Deploying an egg is nothing more than copying a file to the relevant
folder - it's fast and very reliable. Since we deploy to end-user's PCs
we need something that works very quickly. 

Making eggs is really really easy - the hard part is compiling the C++
stuff in Numpy reliably. 

:-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: numpy-discussion-bounces at scipy.org
[mailto:numpy-discussion-bounces at scipy.org] On Behalf Of David
Cournapeau
Sent: 16 April 2009 07:50
To: Discussion of Numerical Python
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Compiling for free on Windows32

Robert Kern wrote:
>
> I have found that people are more willing to accept that they have to 
> do something different to get a technically chalenging feature (i.e.
> use a particular installer to get a safe, optimized BLAS) than to 
> accept that a relatively straightforward feature is not available at 
> all (i.e. egg binaries on PyPI).
>   

In that case, would a simple bdist_wininst-based installer available on
pypi be enough ? Or do eggs have other benefit compared to .exe ?

David

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