[Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

[Donald Stufft]

> On Oct 29, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
> On 10/29/2014 03:46 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> On 29 October 2014 22:19, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>>   - where one should be at when one starts the compile process
>> 
>> I don't understand this. It's just "pip wheel foo" to build a wheel
>> for foo (which will be downloaded), or "pip wheel ." or  "python
>> setup.py bdist_wheel" as you prefer for a local package.
> 
> Hmmm...  That looks like it's for installing/compiling somebody else's package.  Is that last command sufficient to prepare one's own wheel for uploading to PyPI, or there something else to do?
> 

Generally for uploading to PyPI you do ``python setup.py bdist_wheel``, though I don’t think there’d be any bad thing if you used pip wheel.

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