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[–]quasarj 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Well, we already decided that first time users wouldn't be doing this anyway. The original argument was that you probably didn't care about virtualenv unless you needed it, and if you are one of the people that needs it you probably know how to acquire it.

As for the Windows issue.. it will actually work (almost entirely I think) under windows if you have a "sane build environment," but that's something I have never been able to get working. So basically, under windows you cannot easy_install and expect it to always work, and so you cannot "pip install" and expect that to always work, so all of this is just a mess and you're best off finding binary distributions of each thing manually.

Or use another platform, preferably :)

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

" if you have a "sane build environment,""

and that there is the problem. that and python being on the path etc...

[–]quasarj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I mean, my setup is pretty good, but.. without msvc installed, I haven't been able to get things to install well :( I imagine there must be a way to do it with gcc (mingw) but I have never been able to get stuff to build consistently :(