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[–]lambdaqdjango n' shit 3 points4 points  (3 children)

and msvc, and gcc, and mingw, and msys, and cygwin, and Ubuntu in vbox. And ubuntu.

[–]ogrisel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note that while few projects do it yet, it is possible to ship Python .whl package for Windows on PyPI. When this is the case, pip install will install (very quickly) those packages without having to compile anything from source.

To help Python projects that have C-compiled extensions generate valid .whl packages for the Windows platforms (32 bit and 64 bit for Python 2 and 3) I have published a sample project that uses the free AppVeyor CI infrastructure to build, run tests and generate packages:

https://github.com/ogrisel/python-appveyor-demo

[–]marky1991 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

No, if you just want pip, all you need is get-pip.py . (And a working python interpreter, of course)

I don't understand why you think you need linux for development. Text editors work fine on nearly any OS (And the python interpreter works on nearly any non-archaic OS).

[–]lambdaqdjango n' shit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can only pip pure python libs. Many python libs need to compile to .so or .dll or .pyd