[Distutils] Expectations on how pip needs to change for Python 3.4

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst.

> To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to
> PyPI.

I don't hink this means that the installers aren't widely used, I
think it mean they aren't distributed on PyPI.

Installers are really useful for packages that require compiled code
that depends on external libs -- and most of the major such package
maintainers provide them.

Also, numbers aren't as important as the handful of widely used, but
hard to build, packages....

But they are useless with virtualenv, so I'm looking forward to binary wheels...

-Chris


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