[Biopython-dev] Notes on experimenting with making wheels

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Using my elderly 32 bit Windows XP machine,
>
> ...

Python 2.7 and 3.4 were the easy ones - they come with pip.
Python 3.5 would do too, but is not available for Windows XP.

That leaves Python 2.6 and 3.3 where bootstrapping to
install pip is also needed...

Python 3.3

1) Clean install of Windows x86 MSI installer python-3.3.5.msi
(accepting default location and for all users etc)

2) Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

3) To Install pip, setuptools and wheel:

C:\python33\python get-pip.py

4) Try to install binary wheel of numpy,

C:\Python33\Scripts\pip install --only-binary numpy numpy
Collecting numpy
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement numpy (from versions:
)
No matching distribution found for numpy

Hmm.

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Python 2.6,

1) Clean install of Windows x86 MSI installer python-2.6.6.msi
(accepting default location and for all users etc)

2) Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

3) To Install pip, setuptools and wheel:

C:\Python26\python get-pip.py

(Note the warning that pip support for Python 2.6 is deprecated)

4) Try to install binary wheel of numpy,

C:\Python26\Scripts\pip install --only-binary numpy numpy

Again, no binary wheel available for numpy for Python 2.6.

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Given "pip install numpy" wouldn't work simply under
32bit Windows for Python 2.6 and 3.3, there is little
point in trying to build Biopython binary wheels here.

Peter