20 Aug
2019
20 Aug
'19
1:59 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 14:50, Brian Skinn brian.skinn@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if there's an OS dependence here, though -- I'm almost certain I've had to use `--only-binary` in the past, to avoid pip on my Windows machines trying to download and build sdists, even when wheels were available.
Pip prefers newer versions over older ones. If there's a newer version with no binaries, pip will use the source for that version and try to build, even if there are older binaries. `--only-binary` would address that (although there is also a `--prefer-binary` flag in newer versions of pip, which is better suited to that situation).
Paul