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

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Someone on another list indicated that pip installing binary wheels
> from PyPi will ONLY work for Windows.
> 
> Is that the case? I think it's desperately needed for OS-X as well.

For the time being yes, it'll change in the future.

> 
> Linux is so diverse that I can't imagine it being useful, but OS-X has
> only so many versions, and the python.org OS-X binaries are very clear
> in their requirements -- it would be very useful if folks could easily
> get binary wheels for OS-X
> 
> -Chris
> 
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