How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Deborah Swanson]

Chris Angelico wrote, on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:02 AM
> 
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Deborah Swanson 
> <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
> > So perhaps now you might be agreeing with me that investing 
> in Windows 
> > and Visual Studio now is a shortsighted move that will 
> likely result 
> > in long term grief for Python?  Maybe reconsidering it?
> 
> Not at all. I never said Windows wasn't important - just that 
> it isn't secure. Having Python able to run on Windows is a 
> HUGE benefit for the people who use Windows. Obviously it has 
> a cost, and a quite significant one, but it's not a bad 
> decision on the part of the Python core devs.
> 
> But if Windows were to die a quiet death (or, as some have 
> predicted, progressively morph into being a skin atop Linux, 
> and then get spun off as an open source project while 
> Microsoft concentrates on Azure), it would in my opinion be a 
> great boon for the world.
> 
> ChrisA

Indeed.

And it made me glad to read earlier in this thread that Python devs are
leaving themselves a way out of this partnersip with Visual Studio, in
the form of only agreeing to use the VS for currently supported Windows
(or something like that).

I suppose that's at least one reason why XP has become a pariah in the
Python world, and I still predict grief coming from the Python-Visual
Studio alliance. But so it goes.