On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote: > On 19.10.13 03:22, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > On 19 Oct 2013 04:59, "Chris Barker" <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> >> Someone on another list indicated that pip installing binary wheels >> from PyPi will ONLY work for Windows. >> >> Is that the case? I think it's desperately needed for OS-X as well. >> >> Linux is so diverse that I can't imagine it being useful, but OS-X has >> only so many versions, and the python.org OS-X binaries are very clear >> in their requirements -- it would be very useful if folks could easily >> get binary wheels for OS-X > > We do plan to support it, but the pip devs uncovered a hole in the current > wheel spec that means it generates the same filename on *nix systems for > wheels that need to have different names for the download side of things to > work properly - hence the current Windows-only restriction. > > Once ensurepip has landed in Python 3.4 and pip 1.5 is released, we should > be able to get back to updating the various metadata specs, with the aim of > getting cross-platform wheel support in pip 1.6 :) > > > Ok, but then wheel should be explicit about that and not pretend to > work on OS X. I tried that a week ago on a PySide install on OS X, > which compiled very long, and crashed at the end. > If wheel does not support bdist_wheel on a platform, it should refuse > to install at all, IMHO. > > cheers - chris
A reminder that *uploading non-Windows binary wheels to pypi* is the only thing that is restricted. That is because it was tried with eggs and found to be frustrating. bdist_wheel is supposed to work on all platforms. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
