[Python-Dev] updating ensurepip to include wheel

[Donald Stufft]

On August 16, 2015 at 11:26:08 AM, Steven D'Aprano (steve at pearwood.info) wrote:
> 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?
>  
>

That’s the proposal here, ensurepip only installs things it has bundled inside of it, so we’d add a .whl file for wheel and slightly tweak ensurepip so it also installs wheel.


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