After having used and built bdist_wininst installers for years (well, I should say decades) I have recently started playing with pip.
In theory, it is a grat solution. Respects virtual environments (although I haven't tested them yet), allows to freeze to a requirements file, and so on. It would allow to freeze and then commit a requirements file into our version control system, add a 'pip install -r requirements.txt' to our build scripts, and any user in out company as well as the build server would automatically have installed all the required stuff. (We have 8 developers working on our source code, plus a build server that does automatic builds). However, does it work in real life? There are no wheels for important packages like pywin32, numpy, lxml, at least not on PyPi. 'pip install' using the source packages fails to build for most but the simplest stuff; probably because distutils has been extended too much, or because header files or libraries are missing, or whatever... Is there a solution to this? I've seen that the wheel tool can convert bdist_wininst installers into wheels - does this work for the packages I mentioned above? Do we have to build or convert to wheel those packages, and setup a central place where we store them and make them available to our developers? BTW: It seems the pip 1.4.1 doesn't download the wheel built with the most recent setuptools/wheel version, instead it downloads and tries to build from the source package. Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
