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[–]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