On September 25, 2015 at 7:24:30 PM, Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > > That's my point ;-). From our upstream point of view, it's not a bug > > that the distributions we put on PyPI contain generated/bundled files - > > we do it that way deliberately, so that end users can install without > > needing Javascript developer tools to build those files. If you want a > > pure source tarball without generated files, that's available from > > Github. > > Why are end users using source packages instead of binary packages and > then complaining that the source tarballs aren't ready-to-run binary > packages? >
Because the way Python packaging currently is and historically has been, binary packages are not something that is widely available or viable. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
