On 25 January 2014 23:36, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Those people currently either use the wininst installers (which I'm
>> *not* advocating that we remove) or they use virtualenvs,  and have the
>> view that they have to at a minimum jump through some hoops to get
>> numpy to work.
>
> I don't know if you're aware that recent versions of distil can convert 
> bdist_wininst installers to wheels. The feature has not been extensively 
> tested, but AFAIK it basically works. For example, with one of Christoph 
> Gohlke's installers (I just happened to run the conversion on POSIX, it 
> should work the same way on Windows):

Wheel convert also has that ability pretty much since the start - I
added the code for it </showoff>. But yes, it's what I meant by
"jumping through hoops"

Just for information, you can also convert the official numpy
superpack exes, but they are multiple wininsts combined in a single
exe, and you have to open them up in a zip manager, grab the
individual wininsts out, and convert the one you need. (If I recall
the process, it was some time ago and may have changed).

Paul
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