Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Call for testing: PyViennaCL on Windows

[Andreas K. <li...@in...>]

Karl Rupp <ru...@iu...> writes:
>  >> alright, some progress here: Installed Python, the Windows SDK, and
>>> NumPy as described. Then things got complicated:
>>>    - Had to install setuptools. This should be mentioned in the README.
>>>    - python and git need to be in PATH for `python setup.py build` to
>>> work. This is a nontrivial step, since both python and git by default
>>> are not in PATH.
>>
>> Right -- so I've assumed that you have a working python and git
>> installation; it seemed fair to assume that, if you want to install from
>> source and want to be using Python, you'd have both set up.

Git should be thoroughly optional. It should only get used if you're
working off of a git checkout (in which case it's somewhat reasonable to
assume that there's git on the machine). But even then, failing git
invocations should only lead to warnings, not errors.

Andreas