Unix users will always want to compile their own. Pip wheel is not going away, but we will definitely evolve the implementation. On Mar 25, 2013 7:00 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 March 2013 22:46, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > >> I imagine that pip will retain some form of the current "pip wheel" > >> capability that covers this requirement, but maybe as the overall > >> picture of the new design gets clarified, this role should be > >> captured. > > > > Strictly speaking I would have thought "pip wheel" was a builder > function which > > is only in pip as a transitional step, to get wheels more exposure. Is > that an > > incorrect assumption on my part? > > If some other tool provides the same functionality, I can see the > possibility that pip will drop it (assuming that pip takes the route > of becoming a "pure installer"). But I can't imagine pip dropping that > functionality *until* some other tool is available which does the > equivalent. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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