Hi, On 9/22/14, Charlie Clark <charlie.cl...@clark-consulting.eu> wrote: > Am .09.2014, 16:10 Uhr, schrieb Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com>: > >> Sure, but that is a lot of setup for one morning of installs. The >> benefit of the point-click installer is that the student can download >> everything they need in their own time. > > devpi is pretty easy to setup but I understand your point-click, er, point. > >>> Purely regarding wheels - as far as I can tell they're not perfect yet. >>> We >>> dropped them from openpyxl because we couldn't stop them packaging >>> "kitchen sink". This has already disappointed one person but >>> particularly >>> for people who just want something installed, we only want to ship the >>> package. > >> Would you mind saying more about what went wrong there? Wheels will >> install all the listed dependencies, but if there are dependencies you >> don't want, and are not necessary, then the package maintainer needs >> to know... That would be the same for wheels as for a source install, >> as far as I know. > > It's not dependencies but not respecting the exclusions we use for sdist.
Sorry to be dumb, but I don't understand. Do you mean that you built a source tarball of your own package and you tried to modify the dependencies of other packages from that source tarball setup.py? Was there any difference between source and wheel installation? Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
