On 1 Nov 2013 06:50, "Tres Seaver" <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/31/2013 02:24 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > To be honest the same problems likely exists on Windows, it?s just > > less likely and the benefits of prebuilt binaries greater. > > For all platforms *except* Windows, wheels are essentially caches -- > there is no real reason to distribute them via PyPI at all, because OSx > and Linux develpoers will have tools to build them from sdists.
They're caches that can speed things up a *lot*, though, and for new users "can build C extensions" is a higher bar than "can run Python and pip". Given PEP 453, it's probably worth allowing wheels on Mac OS X in pip 1.5, then we can tackle the thornier general *nix problem in the pip 1.6 time frame (which should also improve external dependency handling on Windows and Mac OS X as well). Cheers, Nick. > > Pip *does* need to allow installing them on those platforms, but probably > only via explicit paths / URLS (rather than finding them on PyPI). > > > Tres. > - -- > =================================================================== > Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] > Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlJywmwACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5P/ACfXcMJj4dmnlNJEccZ8gxi8FLR > GrQAoLxxgeVnKRvuoscR6GuabwGxfsnF > =gZW1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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