[Biopython-dev] conda install and/or wheels for Windows(and other platforms?)

[Saket Choudhary]

I proposed a minor change in the README to add instructions for
Anaconda users: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/804.

For non-Anaconda Windows users, another (cleaner?) way would be to
support binary wheels. Projects like numpy, scipy, sklearn have been
supporting the binary wheels on pypi for Windows and lately for Linux
[1,2]

What do people think about moving to binary wheels for pip?

[1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5479
[2] https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2016-April/075234.html


Saket Choudhary