On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Which means you are actually not just a simple end user, but ops or devops who want to build packages. And then the question arises why we can't have documentation explaining how to build packages with the packaging tools that is usable for that user. Fine, as a stop-gap measure pip wheel might be useful, as this mythical packaging tool doesn't really exist yet (except as bdist_wheel, but I suspect pip wheel does more than that?) But in the long run I don't see the point, and I think it muddles what pip is and does. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
