On 17 July 2013 17:59, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > It is easier for the tooling to install and in general you'll want to use >> them, but not everything supports Wheel and some people will want to build >> their own wheels. Think of Wheel as a debian package and the sdist as the >> source package. Ideally the majority of the time people will be installing >> from the Wheel but the sdist is still there for those who don't. >> >> > OK, that makes sense and what I understood wheels to be.Thanks for the > clarification! Daniel's wording made me think suddenly that wheel files > were only for distributions that had an extension or something. >
I think that's the best way for people to think of sdist/wheel - it's precisely equivalent to srpm/rpm (or the debian equivalent as Donald points out) in the Unix world. And ultimately, the expectation is that people install from wheels even for pure-python projects that could just as easily be installed from source, for precisely the same reasons as people use rpms rather than srpms. Paul.
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