On 12/03/2014 09:47 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Randy Syring <ra...@thesyrings.us> wrote:
On 12/03/2014 09:01 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
Many users, like myself, download source releases exclusively, and
to us, wheels are irrelevent. However, users on Windows or who use
systems without build tools for some reason, will experience
breakage as soon as people stop creating traditional binary releases
in favor of wheels.
Does that have to be the case?
Yes, users of buildout on systems without build tools will experience
breakage if packagers stop distributing any of the older binary
formats.
This will remain true until either setuptools grows wheel support, or
until buildout uses something else (other than setuptools).
Ic. I didn't catch that you were talking specifically about buildout
support, but it makes sense now.
As one of the maintainers of pymssql, we are
in the process of figuring out what type of packages we want to ship as
maintainers. Wheel's can be binary releases and, in fact, is what we are
going to build for Windows support going forward. That may certainly
frustrate some automated processes that expect the old package types we used
to ship, but we absolutely want to support binary releases with wheels
specifically to support users that don't have build tools.
I understand. I assume you'll continue to supply source distributions.
Yes, absolutely.
I don't want to dictate, but the situation is what it is. If you've
followed this thread, I hope you can appreciate the quandary we're in.
No problem. It's actually been a helpful discussion. I'm glad I joined
the mailing list and appreciate your feedback.
*Randy Syring*
Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner
/"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/
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