Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Can you explain to me why you as an end user can not just install the 
> packages?
> Why do you need to first build wheels?
>

One likely scenario on Windows is that you have a compiler and can install from
sdists or wheels, but want to distribute packages to people who don't have a
compiler, so can only install from wheels.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip



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