[j-kidd]

Here's my old school setup:

Deployment: `easy_install -U` from a local pypi

Packaging: `setup.py bdist_egg` and `setup.py bdist_wininst`

Dependencies: declare in setup.py, fetch via yolk

To test if everything works, just create a blank virtualenv and easy_install.

This has been working fine for me for years on Linux and Windows.

[sandGorgon]

Can you talk about Windows python packaging - I have been struggling with some of that for some time.

Did you ever have to package stuff like DLLs as part of your code?

[sebastiank123]

Do packages with dependencies in C still require compiling during pip install?

[mmerickel]

While pip does not support binary eggs, easy_install still does. If you want binary distribution with pip you need to use wheels (as you are, of course).