On August 16, 2015 at 11:26:08 AM, Steven D'Aprano (st...@pearwood.info) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > > So what is the benefit of including wheel with ensurepip? > > > > pip has an optional dependency on wheel, if you install that optional > > dependency than you’ll get the implicit wheel cache enabled by default > > which can drastically improve installation speeds by caching built > > artifacts (i.e. ``pip instal lxml`` multiple times only compiles it > > once). The goal is to get more people getting the benefits of that by > > default instead of requiring them to know they need to ``pip install > > wheel`` after the fact. > > Thanks for the explanation. > > And ensurepip couldn't install wheel as part of the process of > installing pip? > >
That’s the proposal here, ensurepip only installs things it has bundled inside of it, so we’d add a .whl file for wheel and slightly tweak ensurepip so it also installs wheel. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com