[Twisted-Python] Installing Twisted on a clean Windows system

[Jeff Grimmett]

Thanks for the confirmation, Amber.  Settling down with 3.6.6 install.

Regards,

Jeff


On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 12:13 PM Amber Brown <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net>
wrote:

> Twisted does not yet support Python 3.7. Due to syntax changes and other
> changes, as well as the non-availability of build infrastructure at this
> moment (e.g. it doesn't work on Travis, we haven't tried appveyor), we
> can't yet fully identify what's wrong and fix it with confidence.
>
> I would suggest sticking with 3.6 until at least 3.7.1 rolls around, by
> which time it's likely that Twisted and other projects have had time to
> catch up.
>
> -Amber
> Twisted Release Manager
>
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, 15:53 Jeff Grimmett, <grimmtooth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to install Twisted 18.4.0  on a clean system, fresh
>> install of Python 3.7.  When I attempt to install from the source dist
>> (python setup.py install) it complains I don't have the MS Visual C++ Build
>> tools ("error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with
>> "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools"") and directs me to
>> http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools - which is a
>> 404.
>>
>> "pip install twisted[windows_platform]" fails for the same reason.
>>
>> Not sure where to go for a good compiler here ... any ideas? Is it too
>> soon to adopt Python 3.7?  Should I go back to 3.6? (this is going to be a
>> system install so I'd prefer to avoid all virtualenv entanglements)
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Jeff
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