[Twisted-web] Changes to Twisted's binary distribution

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Ray Cote <rgacote at appropriatesolutions.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Amber "Hawkie" Brown <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net <mailto:hawkowl at atleastfornow.net>> wrote:
> Just letting everyone know, the next release (Twisted 15.5) will not include MSI or EXE installers for Windows, only binary wheels, and installation through pip or from source dist will be the only supported method of installation. The exe/msi installers didn't work well (or at all?) for virtualenvs, and when we (eventually) start shipping binary wheels for OS X, it'll make everything more consistent.
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> This is tremendously welcome news. Congrats!

I hope that our other efforts to stop doing things are met with such enthusiasm :-)

Thanks!

-glyph

P.S.: seriously though this is a good move, I am also excited about it.
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