[Distutils] Secondary package indexes

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

So what you're saying is that Christoph Gohlke could use binstar to host
the wheels yes?


Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 April 2015 at 14:00, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro>
> wrote:
> > Probably this has been discussed in the past but I'm asking anyway cause
> I'm
> > not sure what's it at now.
> >
> > Currently there's this problem with wheels, many package authors don't
> > publish them for the platforms I'm using. I'm speaking about the wheels
> that
> > need a compiler and/or other annoying dependencies.
> >
> > It would be really nice if one could configure pip to look into a
> secondary
> > (external) indexes. This way someone could make his own index with
> windows
> > wheels, another person could make an index with wheels for ubuntu 14.04
> and
> > people can use those to avoid the pain of compiling the packages.
> >
> > This is already popular, eg: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
> but
> > not readily usable with pip.
> >
> > Maybe PyPI could even provide hosting for these 3rd party wheels, this
> would
> > make publishing very easy and lower the entry bar.
> >
> > I believe we'll never get package authors to publish wheels for platforms
> > they don't care about. But other people might - we just need to make this
> > easy and convenient.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting here, but you can add an
> extra_index_url to your pip.ini. As far as hosting is concerned, if
> you don't want to set up your own package index, binstar offers
> pypi-style hosting for wheels. I'm not sure what reasons there may be
> for Christoph Gohlke not hosting his wheels in a pip-usable format. It
> may be worth someone asking him. I know it'd be nicer for me to point
> to his index, rather than downloading the wheels I need and hosting
> them myself for my personal use.
>
> Paul
>
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