<p dir="ltr">It's possible to upload broken wheels. I don't want "I had to find the disable flag" to be anyone's first impression.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 19, 2013 7:40 PM, "Glyph" <<a href="mailto:glyph@twistedmatrix.com">glyph@twistedmatrix.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Mar 18, 2013, at 04:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Eventually I expect pip will grow a "--wheel-only" option to run it in<br>
>>> strict "installer only" mode, but the ecosystem is a long way from<br>
>>> supporting that being a useful option (especially since there are some<br>
>>> cases which will still require falling back to the "build from source"<br>
>>> model).<br>
>><br>
>> If that's the end goal, then it should be the default now.<br>
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> No, user experience is king. Right now, defaulting to wheel-only would<br>
> be an awful user experience (because you wouldn't be able to install<br>
> anything), as well as being completely backwards incompatible with the<br>
> current behaviour (because everything would break).<br>
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But it could default to wheels-and-other-things right now without breaking anything, right? What's the rationale for not just preferring wheels if they're available?<br>
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-glyph<br>
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