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Subject: Re: PIP installable python libraries

From: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 11:30:20 +0800
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Carl Nobile <carl.nobile@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Are there any plans to make this library PIP installable. This would be mean
> putting it out on https://pypi.python.org/pypi. I'm not sure if the current
> python code has been written in such a way that it can be run on both Python
> 2.7.x and Python 3.4 and up.
>
> It seems that using cmake may be a blocker to doing this, but I haven't
> investigated this thoroughly to see if the standard setup.py mechanism will
> work with cmake.
>
> I'm finding that not being able to use pip to install libftdi is a serious
> issue as many professionals use virtualenv to build packages as this would
> need to have a pip installable package.
>

This is an old thread but I agree with the OP here.

On the other hand, I think pyftdi looks pretty good (not based on
libftdi though).


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