[Distutils] Builders vs Installers

[Vinay Sajip]

Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Can you explain to me why you as an end user can not just install the packages?
> Why do you need to first build wheels?
>

One likely scenario on Windows is that you have a compiler and can install from
sdists or wheels, but want to distribute packages to people who don't have a
compiler, so can only install from wheels.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip