On 3 December 2014 at 14:47, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: >> Am I missing something about binary support with wheels? > > I don't think so.
Agreed. It seems to me that the key issue currently is that for binary distribution, pip only supports wheels, whereas buildout only supports eggs. There are other tools which also tend to only support one or the other (e.g., easy_install -> egg, distil -> wheel) but I think they are the minority. I don't know relative popularity between pip and buildout - I suspect it depends on the community involved. For a project, decisions on which binary formats to provide probably need to be based on the expected numbers of users of each tool. The wheel and egg formats are similar enough to allow auto-conversion (wheel convert does egg->wheel, I don't know if there's a tool to do wheel->egg, but it wouldn't be hard to write) but expecting users to maintain local converted repositories is a burden in itself, so the question remains what binaries to upload to PyPI. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
