Christoph Gohlke and compiled packages

[Mike Dewhirst]

Well thank you Christoph Gohlke and thank you Ian Bicking and colleagues.

I just used pip to nakedly install psycopg2 and Pillow without a hitch. 
My distrust of Windows has kept me going back to Christoff's well for 
years.

Maybe it is time to assume innocence unless proven guilty ;-)

Thanks to all who showed me the way.

Cheers

Mike

On 11/04/2023 11:39 pm, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 4/11/2023 6:58 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 20:15, Jim Schwartz <jschwar at sbcglobal.net> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What’s the problem now?  Is it with python on windows?  I use python 
>>> on windows so I’d like to know. Thanks
>>>
>>
>> Python itself is fine, but a lot of third-party packages are hard to
>> obtain. So if you need numpy, for instance, or psycopg2, you might
>> need to find an alternative source.
>
> I've noticed a big change in the last few years in that PyPi has many, 
> many amd-64 packages than it used to in the heyday of Christoph 
> Gohlke's efforts. I haven't needed to go there for some time whereas I 
> used to need to all the time.  So if I "need numpy, for instance, or 
> psycopg2" for Windows, I get them from PyPi.
>
> Yes, I know that some projects haven't caught up to Python 3.11x yet. 
> And I'm glad I haven't needed to create a binary wheel for Windows 
> myself.  But the situation is way better than it used to be.  I've had 
> more trouble with Python and Python packages on Linux than on Windows.
>


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