[Distutils] Released: pip 7.0 and virtualenv 13.0

[Paul Moore]

On 22 May 2015 at 05:21, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> I'm happy to say that I've just cut the releases of pip 7.0 and virtualenv 13.0
> and I have uploaded them to PyPI. For the full list of changes go visit the
> respective changelogs, however the biggest change here is that in pip 7.0 when
> pip finds and downloads a sdist, instead of installing that sdist directly
> it will instead build a wheel of that and cache it locally. From then on out
> it will use that cached wheel to install instead of downloading and building
> the sdist each time. This can have a profound impact upon installation speed.

Nice! I've been looking forward to this for ages. Thanks to all who
worked on the change - in particular Robert Collins who did the bulk
of the implementation.

Paul