How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:41 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 17/05/2017 00:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:01 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
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>> You mean like wheel files? Yeah, whodathunk. They don't need a C
>> compiler or anything.
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> I don't know if that's the same kind of thing. I'm not talking about
> something like a binary distribution or something that self-installs.
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> I mean distributing actual source that needs to be built (so independent of
> platform or compiler), but without having to download a sprawling directory
> structure with thousands of files simply because that's the layout needed
> during development. It's sort of in-between the developer's sources, and a
> binary executable.

*scratches head* What would that be? What is there between the
developer's sources and the binary? Are you implying that we have
messy development trees but we can run some program on them to produce
perfect, pristine, portable code?

ChrisA