It's possible to upload broken wheels. I don't want "I had to find the disable flag" to be anyone's first impression. On Mar 19, 2013 7:40 PM, "Glyph" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mar 18, 2013, at 04:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> > >>> Eventually I expect pip will grow a "--wheel-only" option to run it in > >>> strict "installer only" mode, but the ecosystem is a long way from > >>> supporting that being a useful option (especially since there are some > >>> cases which will still require falling back to the "build from source" > >>> model). > >> > >> If that's the end goal, then it should be the default now. > > > > No, user experience is king. Right now, defaulting to wheel-only would > > be an awful user experience (because you wouldn't be able to install > > anything), as well as being completely backwards incompatible with the > > current behaviour (because everything would break). > > But it could default to wheels-and-other-things right now without breaking > anything, right? What's the rationale for not just preferring wheels if > they're available? > > -glyph > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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