Re: Python version of Ruby devkit - Advice On library compilation

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > I was wondering if there is a reason that we on windows with python do not > have a version of Ruby devkit for python. > Many of us here don't use Ruby. Can you elaborate on what "devkit" does, please? ChrisA --

Python version of Ruby devkit - Advice On library compilation

Hi I was wondering if there is a reason that we on windows with python do not have a version of Ruby devkit for python. Is it just for historical reason of life before pip became the package manager and released with python? I can't find the actual post in SO it came off this discussion

Re: Python version of Ruby devkit - Advice On library compilation

This is an exert DevKit Overview The DevKit is a toolkit that makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ extensions such as RDiscount and RedCloth for Ruby on Windows. Because on Windows with python libraries like lxml will fail with a vcvarsall error based on different c++ compilers.

Re: Python version of Ruby devkit - Advice On library compilation

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > This is an exert > > DevKit Overview > The DevKit is a toolkit that makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ > extensions such as RDiscount and RedCloth for Ruby on Windows. > > Because on Windows with python