<div dir="ltr">Not that this isn't an issue, but:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Daniel Holth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dholth@gmail.com" target="_blank">dholth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So this was a problem with eggs too. <span style="line-height:1.5">Let's say ZODB 3.0.1 was just released. You are happily using 3.0.0, the next version is a minor upgrade, but there are no precompiled packages for 3.0.1, so your build breaks on Friday morning when you are trying to deploy. </span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you are using pip, etc. to DEPLOY, they you'd better darn be using explicit versions in your requirements.txt.</div><div><br></div><div>Just sayin'</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, you may not want to use explicit versions in development for CI testing, and then you run into the same issue. But having a test fail on commit is not nearly as big a deal....</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="line-height:1.5">If you find yourself in that situation then you would appreciate an easy way to use the newest available binaries rather than the newest available source, </span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think the trick here is that you need "binaries" for packages with C extensions, but source is just fine for pure python.</div><div><br></div><div>So I kind of like the idea of making wheels the default for distributing on PyPi always -- even for pure python modules. And wheels are trivial to build from pure python packages -- so why not?</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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