On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 March 2013 16:21, Steve Dower <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I understand, the issue is the same as between different versions of >> Python and comes down to not being able to assume a compiler on Windows >> machines. It's easy to make a source file that will compile for any ABI and >> platform, but distributing binaries requires each one to be built >> separately. This doesn't have to be an onerous task - it can be scripted >> quite easily once you have all the required compilers - but it does take >> more effort than simply sharing a source file. > > Another nice tool would be some sort of Windows build farm, where > projects could submit a sdist and it would build wheels for a list of > supported Python versions and architectures. That wouldn't work for > projects with complex dependencies, obviously, but could cover a > reasonable-sized chunk of PyPI (especially if dependencies could be > added to the farm on request). > > And can I have a pony as well, of course... :-)
This also came up in the discussion over on http://simeonfranklin.com/blog/2013/mar/17/my-pycon-2013-poster/ I was pointed to an interesting resource: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ (The security issues with that arrangement are non-trivial, but the convenience factor is huge) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
