the pip docs have a cookbook entry now for the wheel support http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#building-and-installing-wheels
the usage reference is up to date as well http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/usage.html Marcus On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Earlier today we merged the existing wheel branch into mainline pip. > This adds opt-in wheel install support (built into pip, "pip install > --use-wheel ...") and the convenient "pip wheel ..." command for > creating the wheels you need. > > "pip wheel ..." uses the wheel reference implementation ("pip install > wheel") to compile a dependency tree as .whl archives. Used together > with "pip install --use-wheel ..." it provides a powerful way to speed > up repeated installs and reap other good packaging benefits. I've been > using this code in production for months and it works well. > > I am now a pip maintainer. We are committed to offering excellent > wheel support in pip including a good way to produce and consume the > format. In the future we will likely refactor the code to offer the > same features with more distlib and less setuptools but this change > will be mostly transparent to the end user. Once everyone is > comfortable with the format we will move towards installing wheels by > default when they are available instead of requiring the --use-wheel > flag. > > Enjoy! Please share your experiences with the new feature. The most > common issue is that you must install distribute >= 0.6.34 for > everything to work well. > > Daniel Holth > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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