On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> On Mar 18, 2013, at 04:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> Eventually I expect pip will grow a "--wheel-only" option to run it in >>> strict "installer only" mode, but the ecosystem is a long way from >>> supporting that being a useful option (especially since there are some >>> cases which will still require falling back to the "build from source" >>> model). >> >> If that's the end goal, then it should be the default now. > > No, user experience is king. Right now, defaulting to wheel-only would > be an awful user experience (because you wouldn't be able to install > anything), as well as being completely backwards incompatible with the > current behaviour (because everything would break). But it could default to wheels-and-other-things right now without breaking anything, right? What's the rationale for not just preferring wheels if they're available? -glyph _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
