On 4 November 2014 21:30, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: >> One of the problems though is that there is plenty of packages on Pypi >> that are not there yet. > > One issue currently is that source distributions are much simpler to make: I > can make a sdist without having wheel installed, and more importantly I can > make a single sdist that works for both Python 2 and 3. That means I can make > a release of a Python 3-compatible package without having to install Python 3 > myself (or the reverse for people who are in a Python 3-only world), relying > completely on a service such as Travis to run tests with Python 3.
If your code is single-source (i.e. doesn't need something like 2to3) then you can put in your setup.cfg [bdist_wheel] universal=1 and the wheel you build will support both Python 2 and 3, even if you built it with Python 2. Conceded you need wheel installed in order to build wheels. It's a pretty small/fast download, and you only need to install it once, but your point is true. Is it a big enough issue to justify merging wheel into (say) setuptools? I don't think so personally, but that would be the only way to avoid the need to install it separately. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
