[Distutils] pip merges wheel

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) pip is *currently* very much a build tool in that it build/installs from
>> source archives, but I understand the new model is for pip to eventually be
>> working with pre-built wheels much of the time, with no build system
>> required.
>
> I used the word "build tool" in the packaging summit, that was the wrong word.
> My point is that is currently a tool to *install* distributions as
> opposed to *create* distributions. I think it's best if it is kept
> that way. I'd rather see the wheel command go into another tool used
> to build distributions (and perhaps upload them to the cheeseshop).

No, that's not the intended use case of "pip wheel". It's intended for
use as a multi-stage installation tool.

Stage 1: install from sdist on a staging server which has development
dependencies installed
Stage 2: upload to a private PyPI index you control (perhaps just a
directory published internally over HTTP)
Stage 3: install from wheel on production servers without development
dependencies

For actual development use, it makes a lot more sense to install the
wheel project and just use ./setup.py bdist_wheel.

Cheers,
Nick.


>
> [ I overheard the proposal to call such a tool "pup". ;-) ]
>
> //Lennart
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