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

[Matthew Brett]

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.

It would be very good to work out a plan for new Python releases as
well.  We really need to get wheels up to pypi a fair while before the
release date, and it's easy to forget to do that, because, at the
moment, we don't have much testing infrastructure to make sure that a
range of wheel installs are working OK.

Cheers,

Matthew