Sure, although I don't have much to announce, glad to hear from everyone who is interested. Its own mailing list is used to discuss development. The project is currently useful. pip install -e git+https://github.com/qwcode/pip#egg=pip # build wheels for pyramid and all of its dependencies: pip wheel -w /tmp/wheelbase pyramid # install pyramid and its dependencies fast, without consulting the network: pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=/tmp/wheelbase pyramid If you would like to help, come to python-dev to discuss getting the PEPs accepted, a pre-requisite for being merged into mainline pip. We seem to have stalled on the digital signature features but the rest of the design is non-controversial. There's also the disruptive suggestion to switch away from - as the separator between filename parts. The bitbucket repository https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel and the crate.iopage https://crate.io/packages/wheel feature new releases with small improvements several times a month. The fantastic "pip wheel" command in qwcode's pip repository https://github.com/qwcode/pip is getting better and better. Platform tags are honored now, so pip will choose correctly between versions of a distribution built for windows or Linux, or for Python 2 or 3, depending on your runtime. Daniel