[Distutils] pip merges wheel

[Daniel Holth]

It's possible to upload broken wheels. I don't want "I had to find the
disable flag" to be anyone's first impression.
On Mar 19, 2013 7:40 PM, "Glyph" <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> >> On Mar 18, 2013, at 04:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Eventually I expect pip will grow a "--wheel-only" option to run it in
> >>> strict "installer only" mode, but the ecosystem is a long way from
> >>> supporting that being a useful option (especially since there are some
> >>> cases which will still require falling back to the "build from source"
> >>> model).
> >>
> >> If that's the end goal, then it should be the default now.
> >
> > No, user experience is king. Right now, defaulting to wheel-only would
> > be an awful user experience (because you wouldn't be able to install
> > anything), as well as being completely backwards incompatible with the
> > current behaviour (because everything would break).
>
> But it could default to wheels-and-other-things right now without breaking
> anything, right? What's the rationale for not just preferring wheels if
> they're available?
>
> -glyph
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