On 19.10.13 03:22, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 19 Oct 2013 04:59, "Chris Barker" <chris.bar...@noaa.gov
<mailto: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 <http://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.
Once ensurepip has landed in Python 3.4 and pip 1.5 is released, we
should be able to get back to updating the various metadata specs,
with the aim of getting cross-platform wheel support in pip 1.6 :)
Ok, but then wheel should be explicit about that and not pretend to
work on OS X. I tried that a week ago on a PySide install on OS X,
which compiled very long, and crashed at the end.
If wheel does not support bdist_wheel on a platform, it should refuse
to install at all, IMHO.
cheers - chris
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