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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 19 Oct, 2013, at 3:22, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 19 Oct 2013 04:59, "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.
> >
> > 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
> 
> We do plan to support it, but the pip devs uncovered a hole in the current wheel spec that means it generates the same filename on *nix systems for wheels that need to have different names for the download side of things to work properly - hence the current Windows-only restriction.

Is that hole documented somewhere? 

Ronald