[Distutils] Distribution format for Python3 libraries

[Donald Stufft]

And sdist!

On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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