On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
Unix users will always want to compile their own.
Yup.
Pip wheel is not going away
I don't see how that follows.
//Lennart
Is it too convenient? The tool knows how to find sources, compile them, and install them. It will delegate all the work to the actual build system. If pip was a pure installer without a way to invoke a build system then it wouldn't be able to install from sdist at all. It would help if you'd describe the alternative workflow again. The proposed workflow is "pip wheel package"; "pip install --find-links wheelhouse --no-index package". We don't suggest uploading the wheels used to cache compilation to pypi especially since most of them are probably other people's packages.