On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:59:26 AM UTC-5, Chris Wilson wrote: > > Hi Reinout, > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Reinout van Rees wrote: > > > On 30-06-12 16:22, Luke Plant wrote: > >> Also, in Django to date we've eschewed external dependencies. That has > >> been partly due to the poor and confusing state of Python packaging, > >> which is hopefully improving. > > [snip] > >> Our current recommended installation method is via pip [2], and we > would > >> be doing our users a disservice to recommend otherwise. > > > > Slight warning: everyone recommends pip, but watch out with windows. Pip > > doesn't support binary eggs (which easy_install does), so all those > python > > database drivers will need to be compiled. > > Good point, thanks. > > > And virtualenv/pip defaults to a nicely isolated virtualenv, so the > > clicky-clicky-install python database drivers (and other binary eggs) > > won't get used. > > > > So: pip sounds great right until you need binaries on windows. > > The virtualenv inherits system-wide packages. So you can install whatever > binary packages you need system-wide, either using easy_install or an MSI, > and pip won't try (and fail) to install them again unless they don't meet > the version requirements of the pip manifest. > > Cheers, Chris. > -- > Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 967 838 > Future Business, Cam City FC, Milton Rd, Cambridge, CB4 1UY, UK > > Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales > with company number 04980791. > > On Windows, if you have an exe built with distutils (most are) it is very simple to install in a virtual environment. From inside a virtual environment you can do *easy_install C:\path\to\binary_package.exe*.
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