[Biopython-dev] Help needed: Windows installers for Python 3.5

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Continuing the Windows installer .exe vs .msi discussion,
>> I was reminded on Twitter that we don't have either for
>> Windows users running Python 3.5 yet.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/FranjoIvankovic/status/658654973128024064
>> https://twitter.com/Biopython/status/658667763729342464
>>
>> Python 3.5 does not support Windows XP, which is past
>> the Microsoft end of life. My own Windows XP machine
>> is essentially only still in use for building the Biopython
>> installers and as a buildbot slave for testing.
>>
>> We need someone with a more recent Windows machine
>> and all the relevant compilers setup to volunteer to build
>> an installer for Python 3.5 (and ideally the older versions
>> too).
>>
>> Ben or Tiago - this this something you could tackle?
>
> According to https://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html
> you would need MSVC 2015 for building extensions for
> use with Python 3.5 (probably mingw32 can be used too).
>
> (Also MSCV 2010 for Python 3.3 and 3.4 but that is less
> urgent.)
>
> As some point I do hope to get a more recent Windows
> machine for development etc, ideally as a VM, and then
> retire my old WinXP machine (I'm sure our IT department
> would like to get rid of it too), but  that isn't going to happen
> immediately.
>
> Peter

On the bright side, Christoph Gohlke is one step ahead of us
with 64bit binaries for Biopython 1.66 already covered on
Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5:

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#biopython

That was fast!

Peter