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The big problem with installing packages written in C is that on Windows, you needed the matching version of VC++ to build, which wasn't anywhere as easy to obt
by int_19h 2y ago
The big problem with installing packages written in C is that on Windows, you needed the matching version of VC++ to build, which wasn't anywhere as easy to obtain as the standard build tools on Unix platforms, usually (where they'd often even be preinstalled, and if not, it's one apt/yum invocation away).
The eventual solution for this was something called "Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7" - which was pretty much just enough of VC++ command line tools packaged to make it possible to build things.