On 19 April 2015 at 14:00, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably this has been discussed in the past but I'm asking anyway cause I'm > not sure what's it at now. > > Currently there's this problem with wheels, many package authors don't > publish them for the platforms I'm using. I'm speaking about the wheels that > need a compiler and/or other annoying dependencies. > > It would be really nice if one could configure pip to look into a secondary > (external) indexes. This way someone could make his own index with windows > wheels, another person could make an index with wheels for ubuntu 14.04 and > people can use those to avoid the pain of compiling the packages. > > This is already popular, eg: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ but > not readily usable with pip. > > Maybe PyPI could even provide hosting for these 3rd party wheels, this would > make publishing very easy and lower the entry bar. > > I believe we'll never get package authors to publish wheels for platforms > they don't care about. But other people might - we just need to make this > easy and convenient.
I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting here, but you can add an extra_index_url to your pip.ini. As far as hosting is concerned, if you don't want to set up your own package index, binstar offers pypi-style hosting for wheels. I'm not sure what reasons there may be for Christoph Gohlke not hosting his wheels in a pip-usable format. It may be worth someone asking him. I know it'd be nicer for me to point to his index, rather than downloading the wheels I need and hosting them myself for my personal use. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
