On 19 Oct, 2013, at 3:22, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19 Oct 2013 04:59, "Chris Barker" <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > > > Someone on another list indicated that pip installing binary wheels > > from PyPi will ONLY work for Windows. > > > > Is that the case? I think it's desperately needed for OS-X as well. > > > > Linux is so diverse that I can't imagine it being useful, but OS-X has > > only so many versions, and the python.org OS-X binaries are very clear > > in their requirements -- it would be very useful if folks could easily > > get binary wheels for OS-X > > We do plan to support it, but the pip devs uncovered a hole in the current > wheel spec that means it generates the same filename on *nix systems for > wheels that need to have different names for the download side of things to > work properly - hence the current Windows-only restriction.
Is that hole documented somewhere? Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
