On 12 January 2017 at 13:00, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > This doesn’t work well because it’s not something that pip is going to be > able to upgrade on Windows, because the .so will be locked when pip imports > it on Windows and we won’t be able to uninstall it to do an upgrade. We had > to disable the automatic use of pyOpenSSL for this reason too. The only C > stuff that pip can reliably use is the standard library.
Ugh, I'd completely forgotten about that limitation of Windows filesystems. And the main alternatives I can think of involve copying files around as pip starts up, which would be unacceptably slow for a command line app :( Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
