On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote: > > > I still submit that this is not the best use of time. Conda *already* solves the problem. My sadness is that people keep working to create an ultimately inferior solution rather than just help make a better solution more accessible. People mistakenly believe that wheels and conda packages are equivalent. They are not. If they were we would not have created conda. We could not do what was necessary with wheels and contorting wheels to become conda packages was and still is a lot more work. Now, obviously, it's just code and you can certainly spend effort and time to migrate wheels so that they functionally equivalently to conda packages --- but what is the point, really? > > Why don't we work together to make the open-source conda project and open-source conda packages more universally accessible?
The factors that motivate my interest in making wheels for Linux (i.e. the proposed manylinux tag) work on PyPI are - All (new) Python installations come with pip. As a package author writing documentation, I count on users having pip installed, but I can't count on conda. - I would like to see Linux have feature parity with OS X and Windows with respect to pip and PyPI. - I want the PyPA tools like pip to be as good as possible. - I'm confident that the manylinux proposal will work, and it's very straightforward. -Robert
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