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Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

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On 23/10/2013 15:34, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Tim:
> 
>> Disregarding Mark's tongue-in-cheek rhetoric for now... perhaps you
>> didn't realise that, on Windows, you can't pip install a binary
> 
> Mark:
> 
>> Which on Windows often ends up telling you that it can't find vcvarsall.bat
> 
> I am well aware that Windows users rarely have compilers available.
> Perhaps neither of you realized that I was responding to Mark's
> comment that, "I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure
> having to compile code instead of having a binary install."
> 
> On Unix systems most of the time people never invoke a compiler
> directly to install from source. Heck, they often don't need to
> download directly, as "pip install <whatever>" takes care of all that
> drudgery.

Fair enough -- I thought you were implying that pip install had
magically solved all problems of source or binary installation. Clearly
you weren't, so my points about the problems still faced on Windows are
rather moot. :)

TJG

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