On 4 December 2013 23:31, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, rather than adding complexity most folks don't need directly to the > base wheel spec, here's a possible "multiwheel" notion - embed multiple > wheels with different names inside the multiwheel, along with a > self-contained selector function for choosing which ones to actually install > on the current system.
That sounds like a reasonable approach. I'd be willing to try to put together a proof of concept implementation, if people think it's viable. What would we need to push this forward? A new PEP? > This could be used not only for the NumPy use case, but also allow the > distribution of external dependencies while allowing their installation to > be skipped if they're already present on the target system. I'm not sure how this would work - wheels don't seem to me to be appropriate for installing "external dependencies", but as I'm not 100% clear on what you mean by that term I may be misunderstanding. Can you provide a concrete example? Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
