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authorBen McGinnes <[email protected]>2018-12-04 23:51:59 +0000
committerBen McGinnes <[email protected]>2018-12-04 23:51:59 +0000
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python: windows c and cython
* added warning that he Windows C runtime issues will also affect use with Cython and that relying on binary installers would remove that possible use case.
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@@ -569,6 +569,13 @@ x86-64 (i.e. Intel and AMD) and ARM architectures for CPython 3.5,
3.6, 3.7 and later releases. That's the bare *minimum*, it'd probably
be higher.
+Additionally, with only a binary installation used in conjunction with
+the CPython installer from =python.org= the advanced options available
+which utilise [[#cython][Cython]] will not be able to be used at all. Cython
+depends on being able to compile the C code it generates and that too
+would need to utilise a matching runtime to both the installed version
+of CPython and these bindings in order to work with the bindings.
+
Considering all of that, what do we recommend?
1. Use a recent version of CPython; at least 3.5, but ideally 3.6 or