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

[Donald Stufft]

On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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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Sorry I should be more clear :) I wasn't claiming they weren't used (In fact I would guess but without looking that those 5k probably have a good bit of downloads). Just making a statement as to how many of them exist on PyPI.

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