[Distutils] Distribution format for Python3 libraries

[Paul Moore]

On 16 November 2013 17:59, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> What is the preferred format to distribute Python-3 libraries (for Windows)
> nowadays: wininst, egg, ...?

Wheel is the format of the future.

pip install will only use wheels (recent versions of pip)
wininst doesn't support virtualenv
egg is only supported by easy_install, which is not recommended these
days (use pip instead)
MSI is rarely used, and can't easily be converted to other formats

Personally, I'd recommend wheel and wininst.

Paul