[Distutils] wheel building help needed

[Brian Wickman]

Happy to answer any specific questions about PEX here or off-thread.  I'm
hacking on wheel support in my spare time -- hope to ship that sometime in
the next couple weeks.  The other big upcoming change is standardizing
docstrings throughout so that we can get a proper API published on
readthedocs.

~brian


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <eugene at sazhin.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Evgeny, while you can probably make wheels do what you want, if you're
> > interested in single file executables, you're almost certainly better off
> > using one of the tools designed to make those easier to work with (like
> > Twitter's recently discussed PEX format, or PEP 441).
> >
> > As you have discovered, cross platform single file executables are an
> area
> > where the currently published documentation is even less polished and
> > coherent than that for the rest of the packaging infrastructure :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
>
>
> Nick,
>
> Thank you for pointing that out. I took a brief look at the pyz stuff
> and while it might be good generally - it doesn't help me much. There
> are two problems i'm trying to solve : dependency management and
> jar-like behavior (as libraries or executables). Pip + wheel combo
> seems to be geared better for that task (may be as you guys are
> pointing out, not intentionally, but still seems to be better
> approach).
>
> We will definitely take a look at PEX as from the very scattered info
> i got so far they seem to be very good at dependency management - so
> that might be an option.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eugene
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