On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Vernon D. Cole <vernondc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pywin32 is mostly written in C, and has lots of dependencies and weird > build requirements. In order to compile it, you must have the same C > compiler that your release of Python was built with. For older Python > versions (like 2.7) that compiler is obsolete and hard to find, so installs > from source are pretty nearly impossible. > > Microsoft provides a compiler package for Python 2.7 specifically for creating binary wheels (and other binary distros): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 > Would a binary wheel be able to do all of the crazy set up that the > Windows installer does? > No it wouldn't, but a lot of the postinstall stuff isn't necessary for many uses of pywin32. It's probably still worthwhile to package it as a wheel for those use cases. At least it's useful enough that there's an alternate distribution called "pypiwin32": https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiwin32 > The project is open source, and patches are happily accepted. > According to the bug I referenced above, the only thing necessary to get most functionality working is a tweak to the path files. Also according to the same bug, it looks as though those involved couldn't figure out where to send patches. Where should patches/contributions be sent in order to get the attention of those who can merge them? > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Kevin Horn <kevin.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> check out this bug: >> http://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/669/ >> >> There's been some interest, but the pywin32 developers themselves don't >> seem to have gotten involved. >> >> I'm not sure why. It would be really nice to have pywin32 be >> pip-installable. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone successfully pip installed the pywin32 package? I'm having >>> some trouble with it at the moment. In theory, it should be easier to >>> instruct people to "type pip install pywin32" than "go to the >>> sourceforge download page, pick the right installer, and run it"; but >>> the installer is currently failing. >>> >>> Full log is available if people want it, but what I'm seeing in it is >>> a number of lines like: >>> >>> Analyzing links from page >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ >>> >>> It never gets to the point of searching the build-specific pages, eg: >>> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20219/ >>> >>> Is there a way to tell pip how to find the file? >>> >>> All advice gratefully received! >>> >>> ChrisA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> python-win32 mailing list >>> python-win32@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Kevin Horn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-win32 mailing list >> python-win32@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >> >> > -- -- Kevin Horn
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