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

[Alex Grönholm]

Amen to that, but who will pay for it? I imagine a great deal of 
processing power would be required for this.
How do implementors of other languages handle this?

25.05.2016, 10:13, Thomas Güttler kirjoitti:
> If you want wheel to be successful, **provide a build server**.
>
> Quoting the author of psutil:
>
> https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/824#issuecomment-221359292
>
> {{{
> On Linux / Unix the only way you have to install psutil right now is 
> via source / tarball. I don't want to provide wheels for Linux (or 
> other UNIX platforms). I would have to cover all supported python 
> versions (7) both 32 and 64 bits, meaning 14 extra packages to compile 
> and upload on PYPI on every release. I do that for Windows because 
> installing VS is an order of magnitude more difficult than installing 
> gcc on Linux/UNIX but again: not willing to do extra work on that 
> front (sorry).
> What you could do is create a wheel yourself with python setup.py 
> build bdist_wheel by using the same python/arch version you have on 
> the server, upload it on the server and install it with pip.
> }}}
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
>   Thomas Güttler
>