[Distutils] Released: pip 7.0 and virtualenv 13.0

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 22 11:22:34 CEST 2015


On 22 May 2015 14:21, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> 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.

Huzzah! Great work folks :)

Cheers,
Nick.
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