Re: [Distutils] matrix: python_versions x supported_plattforms, cross-compiling vs VM

On May 27, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

On 27 May 2016 at 17:28, Chris Barker wrote:

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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?

It would be *really* nice to have some sort of metadata/flag that said "this project is pure Python". Normally, what I want is not *quite* --only-binary, but rather "only binary except for pure Python where I'm happy to take a source distribution". But AFAIK, there's no way for pip to know that :-(

The flip side is it should be trivial for pure Python projects to release wheels, often requiring them to do nothing different except ensuring `wheel` is installed and running ``setup.py sdist bdist_wheel` instead of just `setup.py sdist`. — Donald Stufft