On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:43 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> We need to be able to run both projects concurrently on the same grid. > >> Setuptools + eggs allows this to happen. If we used .exe installers then > >> we could only have one single version of any given dependancy at any > >> time and so we would not be able to run the two projects in paralell. > > > > I think you are misunderstanding my suggestion - it would be strictly > > equivalent to installing an egg, because easy_install can build an egg > > from the .exe automatically. Numpy is installed as an egg from the > > .exe if you use easy_install. In particular you can use parallel > > multi-versions. > > For the record, Fadhley could use this method and reported privately > that it worked as expected once he extracted the bdist_wininst .exe > from the superpack, > I'm curious if trunk compiled for him with VC++2003? Chuck
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