Earlier today we merged the existing wheel branch into mainline pip.
This adds opt-in wheel install support (built into pip, "pip install
--use-wheel ...") and the convenient "pip wheel ..." command for
creating the wheels you need.
"pip wheel ..." uses the wheel reference implementation ("pip install
wheel") to compile a dependency tree as .whl archives. Used together
with "pip install --use-wheel ..." it provides a powerful way to speed
up repeated installs and reap other good packaging benefits. I've been
using this code in production for months and it works well.
I am now a pip maintainer. We are committed to offering excellent
wheel support in pip including a good way to produce and consume the
format. In the future we will likely refactor the code to offer the
same features with more distlib and less setuptools but this change
will be mostly transparent to the end user. Once everyone is
comfortable with the format we will move towards installing wheels by
default when they are available instead of requiring the --use-wheel
flag.
Enjoy! Please share your experiences with the new feature. The most
common issue is that you must install distribute >= 0.6.34 for
everything to work well.
Daniel Holth
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