[Pythonmac-SIG] Package for building DMG installers from pip requirements

Charlie Clark charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu
Mon Sep 22 16:28:36 CEST 2014


Am .09.2014, 16:24 Uhr, schrieb Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>:

> Sorry to be dumb, but I don't understand.  Do you mean that you built
> a source tarball of your own package and you tried to modify the
> dependencies of other packages from that source tarball setup.py?

Nothing to do with dependencies.

> Was there any difference between source and wheel installation?

Yes, the wheel includes tests and other code we don't have in the source  
installation. I don't know why this is the case as I, fortunately, don't  
manage releases and don't need to learn the pitfalls of any new formats.  
For us it was just easier to drop it.

Charlie
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