On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 10:18:53 AM UTC-8, Benoit Izac wrote: > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > > >>> Since Python runs natively in Windows, why are you trying to run it > >>> with Cygwin? I'm not implying that you shouldn't, just offhand I don't > >>> see a reason for it. > >> > >> I do it because it's easier to install third party packages, those that > >> need an external library to run. Cygwin come with a lot of lib* and > >> lib*-devel that permit to just run `pip install xxx' if not already > >> packaged. I gave a try on the native Windows version and Anaconda but > >> there is at least one package that I could not run (and I loosed > >> a lot of time to compile a bunch of libraries). > >> > >> Example of package: pyproj (proj4), openpyxl with lxml (libxml2, > >> libxslt) and pillow (libjpeg, zlib, libtiff, ...), psycopg2 (libpq). > > > > I belive these are all available at > > http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ > > How do you know when an upgrade is available? > > -- > Benoit Izac
This thread also seems to address windows lack of support with linux. Only if windows had a linux command line support instead of using power shell. Mac is not preferred OS and its just a matter of time since windows is obsolete. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list