[Scons-dev] [Scons-users] Can we drop windows native installers if pip install works?

Gary Oberbrunner garyo at oberbrunner.com
Mon Apr 10 13:45:06 EDT 2017


As a Windows user, I'd be very happy if pip install were the only proper
way to install it going forward. Yes, sometimes I'd want to do it locally,
but using pip is fine.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Jonathon Reinhart <
jonathon.reinhart at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:36 AM, Alexandre Feblot <
> alexandre.feblot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And in some controlled environments, there might be no access to
>> internet. A self contained installer is still the best solution in this
>> situation.
>
>
> That's not an issue. Pip will happily install from a zip file, tarball,
> cloned git repo, etc. There is no internet access requirement to use Pip.
>
> A lot of Windows users will, out of habit, come looking for "setup.exe",
> but considering Pip comes pre-installed with Python 2.7 and up these days,
> it'd be trivial to 'pip install scons'.
>
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Gary
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