[Python-Dev] updating ensurepip to include wheel
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sun Aug 16 17:24:35 CEST 2015
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > So what is the benefit of including wheel with ensurepip?
>
> pip has an optional dependency on wheel, if you install that optional
> dependency than you’ll get the implicit wheel cache enabled by default
> which can drastically improve installation speeds by caching built
> artifacts (i.e. ``pip instal lxml`` multiple times only compiles it
> once). The goal is to get more people getting the benefits of that by
> default instead of requiring them to know they need to ``pip install
> wheel`` after the fact.
Thanks for the explanation.
And ensurepip couldn't install wheel as part of the process of
installing pip?
--
Steve
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