Wheels can't be required because they can be platform/python version
specific, being binary distributions. We can't demand that independent
developers support some combination of platforms and versions when their
computer might only be running one of them, simply because their wheel
might be
no, wheels should not be required -- encourage, absolutely, but required,
no.
My experience so far tells me otherwise. Our of 7 or so libraries that I
tried to convert to wheel files that salt stack depends on only 2 were
using setuptools, others were using distutils and had sometimes quite
Hello,
It seems that according to the
https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/current.html
it is more or less settled that the setuptools/pip/wheel is the way to
go forward.
One of the problems though is that there is plenty of packages on Pypi
that are not there yet.
Is
On 04 Nov 2014, at 21:08, Evgeny Sazhin eug...@sazhin.us wrote:
Hello,
It seems that according to the
https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/current.html
it is more or less settled that the setuptools/pip/wheel is the way to
go forward.
One of the problems though
On 4 November 2014 21:30, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote:
One of the problems though is that there is plenty of packages on Pypi
that are not there yet.
One issue currently is that source distributions are much simpler to make: I
can make a sdist without having wheel installed, and
It is usually pretty easy to build from sdist. Wheels are convenient but I
don't think they should be required.
On Nov 4, 2014 6:38 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 November 2014 21:30, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote:
One of the problems though is that there is plenty
I'm also thinking about why wheel wouldn't be intergrated into
standard library if this seems to be (finally) the standard?
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 November 2014 21:30, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote:
One of the problems though is
My experience so far tells me otherwise. Our of 7 or so libraries that I
tried to convert to wheel files that salt stack depends on only 2 were
using setuptools, others were using distutils and had sometimes quite big
setup.py files and were not compiling out of the box, and frankly I have no
idea
Bad setup.py is a different issue. I didn't have a solution for that so I
did a binary package format instead. I wish there was more innovation on
the build side. We should be building sdists that can make wheels with no
DistUtils or setuptools.
pip wheel . is sometimes easier than setup.py
