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

[Tres Seaver]

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On 10/31/2013 02:24 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> To be honest the same problems likely exists on Windows, it?s just
> less likely and the benefits of prebuilt binaries greater.

For all platforms *except* Windows, wheels are essentially caches --
there is no real reason to distribute them via PyPI at all, because OSx
and Linux develpoers will have tools to build them from sdists.

Pip *does* need to allow installing them on those platforms, but probably
only via explicit paths / URLS (rather than finding them on PyPI).


Tres.
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