[Distutils] If you want wheel to be successful, provide a build server.

[Pradyun Gedam]

(this is my first mail to the list, hopefully, this goes through)

Hey Matthew,

FYI, the --prefer-binary flag that you mention has come up in earlier
discussions and already has an issue over at pip’s github repo (
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3785).

Regards,
Pradyun
​

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 at 00:21 Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 26, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Maybe there could be a way to say "the most recent release that has a
> wheel
> >>> for my platform". That would help with the problem of binaries not
> being
> >>> available concurrently with a new source distribution.
> >>
> >> Yes, that would certainly help get over some of the immediate problems.
> >>
> >> Sorry for my ignorance - but does ``--only-binary`` search for an
> >> earlier release with a binary or just bomb out if the latest release
> >> does not have a binary?   It would also be good to have a flag to say
> >> "if this is pure Python go ahead and use the source, otherwise error".
> >>   Otherwise I guess we'd have to rely on everyone with a pure Python
> >> package generating wheels.
> >
> > I believe it would find the latest version that has a wheel available,
> > I could be misremembering though.
>
> Reflecting a bit more on this - how easy would be be to add a flag
> ``--prefer-binary`` that would have the effect of:
>
> * Installing a binary wheel for current release if available, otherwise;
> * Checking previous release for binary wheel, installing if present,
> otherwise;
> * Install from sdist
>
> I think that would help a great deal in reducing surprise in wheel
> installs while we get better at putting up wheels at the same time as
> sdists.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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