Very cool Howard!

I will watch the list for an announcement.  Thanks for your work on this.

David.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Howard Butler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:44 AM, David Fawcett wrote:
>
>> Any hope of a Windows installer for rtree for Python 2.5?  I am
>> teaching a 'Python In GIS' workshop in about six weeks and would like
>> to include some code utilizing Shapely and rtree.  The class is a mix
>> of proprietary and OS GIS Python, so I am stuck at 2.5.
>>
>> I understand that there were some problems with trying to build one in
>> the past, so I am just checking on the prospects.
>
> David,
>
> I would say the prospects are high to have something for you in 6 weeks.  The 
> new version of Rtree in svn is completely ctypes based, and we are waiting on 
> a new release of libspatialindex (builds and works completely fine on windows 
> as well) before kicking out the new Rtree release.  After that, it should be 
> as simple as installing the egg or running the .exe (it'll be pure Python).  
> I will build a windows installer that includes libspatialindex dlls as well.
>
> Howard
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