-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2013 5:34 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2013 06:50, "Tres Seaver" <tsea...@palladion.com > <mailto:tsea...@palladion.com>> wrote: >> > 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".
I don't think it's true that they're caches on all Linux boxes. I have many production machines that do not have compilers on them, and do not have the development headers, etc. installed. They're no better off than a Windows machine! Sure, I could install all of this, but: - - I'd rather not increase the attack surface by installing lots of software - - Some of these are small VM instances, and I don't have room to install a full build environment Where I can, right now I typically install the tools I need to install, do the installation from source, and then remove the tools. It's a pain. I'd much rather have binary Linux wheels. I'm more than happy to build them myself on a dedicated build machine. Eric. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSctEsAAoJENxauZFcKtNxSYYIAJW3BArMWX+Z669AYe/lpoj9 WMggmdfr6u6BXrOVdujHJpXG43U9UhcqJTYLOitNHyO9XKVq/ODDfbV7SN9LTlHI atkEf87xxjuaBI5nBiS0q/ozKMmU4AR82aHYQ2wcxlLry/CSt9zgBBM/vt4I0so2 UXeUa5CgkXGGsG5nYvk9zOAQmMknUSESZrE/WNsgjImk9oBBySs9Tvz+hUF407Y2 sRFuWVZCoDjFwWg8/e98YI6sxuqx7fFhdzn5uoXq9wQ27xg9FjKQlbAWPYcBVK1M ZAQj0SgSMY4paKQ9QsOdQchieJjRZ21C7ue8WGaca/IeyY280RTA0ztuRVMFz58= =nmb3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
