How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 01:37 am, bartc wrote:

> No, not like that. I mean genuinely simple. Your example:
> 
> (1) Doesn't work on Windows
> (2) Usually seems to involve executing 20,000 to to 30,000 lines of
> complete gobbledygook in that configuration script.
> 
> That can't possibly be justified.

Dammit, Bart just worked it out!

You're right Bart, the whole thing is a scam. The Python compiler is
actually a ten line C program[1], the rest of the files and build-scripts
and all the other stuff you see in the source directory are just there to
give the impression that it is harder than it really is. They actually have
no purpose, and the core devs have spent tens of thousands of person-hours
writing and maintaining those files as part of an elaborate Get Rich Slow
scam:

(1) Write Python.
(2) Bulk it up to make it look more impressive.
(4) Profit!




[1] Excluding comments.


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