On 27 August 2014 16:42, David Genest <[email protected]> wrote: > On windows, we use wheel convert to convert binary installers like pywin32 to > wheels. But the post-install step in the setup is mandatory for pywin32 to > work (it is not a mere Start Menu customization).
For pywin32, my understanding is that (ignoring start menu stuff) the postinstall registers the DLLs for COM and things like that. Which is essential, but only for the system installation (you don't want every virtualenv registering as "the" Python COM server). So pywin32 would need work to make it virtualenv-friendly anyway, and while that's being done, it can probably be made wheel-friendly too. For now, though, my experience is that using converted wheels in virtualenvs works fine as long as you don't write services or COM servers. But anyway, pywin32 isn't hosted anywhere pip can find, so "pip install" doesn't work from sdist either. Thanks for the information, nevertheless. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
