How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Gregory Ewing]

Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Why do you care so deeply what pip does on an operating system that is
> no longer supported?

Being pipless is a sufficiently distressing fate that we'd
like to help, even if you didn't explicitly request it.

Particularly since it seems like such an unnecessary one,
because installing pip shouldn't require any kind of compiler
on any version of any operating system, supported or otherwise.
So the fact that it apparently does on your system is very
puzzling, and some of us would like to solve that puzzle.

-- 
Greg