[Distutils] Plans for binary wheels, and PyPi and OS-X

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Sebastien Douche <sdouche at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Once ensurepip has landed in Python 3.4 and pip 1.5 is released, we should
>> be able to get back to updating the various metadata specs, with the aim of
>> getting cross-platform wheel support in pip 1.6 :)
> 
> If I understand right, we must waiting Python 3.5 (~2016) to have
> out-of-the-box wheel packages on Linux. Really?

No, Python 3.4.x will ship whatever the latest version of pip is, so if 1.6 is out
when 3.4.1 ships it’ll ship with pip 1.6. You can also always pip install —upgrade pip
before then.

There’s only so many hours in a day and so many people willing to get involved
some things have to be delayed.

> 
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