[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:59:09 -0400
"Eric V. Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> 
> It might be true that such systems don't need binary packages on PyPI,
> but the original question is about binary package support for the
> packaging module on non-Windows systems. I think the answer is clearly
> "yes": I have such systems without compilers. If I build packages on a
> staging server, I would want to put them on an internal PyPI-like
> server, for consumption by packaging. So packaging would need to
> consume these binary packages.

And it's not only compilers, it's also external libraries (which are
generally not installed by default).
For example, to compile pyOpenSSL, you first need to fetch the OpenSSL
development headers.

Regards

Antoine.