On 20 August 2013 16:09, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW is there any reason for numpy et al not to start distributing > wheels now? Is any part of the wheel > specification/tooling/infrastructure not complete yet? > Not really. It's up to them to do so, though. Maybe their toolset makes that more difficult, I don't believe they use setuptools, for example - that's their problem, but it may not be one they are interested in solving :-( The biggest issues outstanding are: 1. Script handling, which is a bit flaky still (but I don't think that affects numpy) 2. Tags (not in general, but AIUI numpy distribute a fancy installer that decides what compiled code to use depending on whether you have certain CPU features - they may want to retain that, and to do so may prefer to have more fine-grained tags, which in turn may or may not be possible to support). I don't think that's a critical issue though. Getting numpy et al on board would be a huge win - if wheels can satisfy their needs, we could be pretty sure we haven't missed anything. And it gets a big group of users involved, giving us a lot more real world use cases. Feel like sounding the numpy community out on the idea? Paul
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