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Consider adding MSYS tools/shell #67

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Some projects depend on MSYS (or a proper shell) to be built correctly, and 
adding MSYS to this distribution could help it to become even more useful. I 
know your intention is not to distribute a complete development environment for 
C/C++/Fortran but for Python, but adding MSYS would enable us to do better 
shell scripting and building software that depend on this kind of environment.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joao.eel@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2013 at 4:52

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Original comment by pierre.raybaut on 15 Aug 2013 at 7:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
This sounds awfully out of scope for a scientific Python distribution...

Original comment by VanBoxem...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2013 at 12:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
All scientific Python distributions I have used before (Canopy, PythonXY, 
Anaconda) include a C/C++/Fortran build environment. You are probably not aware 
that many scientific libraries written in Python (include here things such as 
Numpy, Scipy, scikit-learn) use a lot of native code wrapped by 
Cython/SWIG/ctypes.

Original comment by joao.eel@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2013 at 1:33