How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Rhodri James]

On 17/05/17 14:53, bartc wrote:
> On 17/05/2017 13:35, Rhodri James wrote:
>> On 17/05/17 01:41, bartc wrote:
>
>> As a cross-platform developer, I find your naivity refreshing.  If only
>> life were so simple.
>>
>> When you develop code yourself, you can lay out your files however you
>> find most convenient, code to the foibles of your compiler, operating
>> system and indeed processor, and use whatever tools you choose.  The
>> moment you expect anyone else to compile your code, all of those
>> conveniences go out of the window, and things become more complex, not
>> less.  Arbitrary compilation environments require more support than
>> development, not less.
>
> That's all true. But the answer is not to make it a nightmare for
> everyone else as well as yourself. If the requirement is to get other
> people to build your product from source for the purpose of using it or
> testing it (and for various reasons using prebuilt binaries is not an
> option), then the process ought to be as painless as possible.
>
> Few people seem to see the point in making that effort.
>
>>> I'm not talking about my programs for a change. (I mentioned my compiler
>>> as an example of one that is faster than tcc but not as fast as gcc.)
>>
>> You should be.  You are claiming something is easy.  Chris invited you
>> to consider how easy it isn't for code you know well.  That you keep
>> fighting shy of doing so does not speak well of you as a programmer.
>
> It doesn't work. I can post something that is easy to compile, but
> someone is going to say, Ah, but it doesn't do this, it doesn't do that,
> it doesn't work on X...

"Few people seem to see the point in making that effort."

Oh, the irony.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd