On 3/18/2013 5:16 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > I still think it is unfortunate that we are starting to extend pip to > be a tool for developers to create distributions. It would be better > of pip was kept as an install tool, and we added the utilities for > creating distributions separate.
I completely agree. And those tools to build distributions could be downloaded separately. -- Eric. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
