So what you're saying is that Christoph Gohlke could use binstar to host the wheels yes?
Thanks, -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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