On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst.
> To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to > PyPI. I don't hink this means that the installers aren't widely used, I think it mean they aren't distributed on PyPI. Installers are really useful for packages that require compiled code that depends on external libs -- and most of the major such package maintainers provide them. Also, numbers aren't as important as the handful of widely used, but hard to build, packages.... But they are useless with virtualenv, so I'm looking forward to binary wheels... -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
