[Distutils] wheels or system packages for pip on ubuntu

[Reinout van Rees]

On 04-09-14 19:54, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Sep 04, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Marcus Smith wrote:
>
>> >wouldn't that only update it for the*next*  release of debian/ubuntu?
> Generally yes.  There's also backports, but that's more effort.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
> https://wiki.debian.org/Backports

For my usecase it is mostly that I have a colleague that keeps doing 
absolute magic with gdal. And when he says "this calculation can be done 
with 30% of the effort if we use the one-month-old gdal version", then 
you need *very* up to date ubuntu packages :-)

We did use (for this case) the ubuntugis-stable PPA, but that broke a 
number of our servers somewhere in May or so as it also updated some 
other dependency which caused breakage.


So... that's why Wheels started to sound nice. And compiling wheels 
yourself and placing them on a server in a directory with various wheels 
for a specific distribution... Sounds like the most standard option 
right now.


Reinout

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