On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:58 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 17 Nov 2013 08:07, "Donald Stufft" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wheels are way faster for pure python though, so they should totally be > > uploaded :D > > In chatting to someone proposing a patch for IPython to start publishing > wheels, I noted that wheels don't yet work even for distributions with > essential logic in their setup.py file, even if it's a pure Python > distribution. > > The specific case affecting IPython was the need to define platform dependent > dependencies. Metadata 2.0 will handle that, but isn't going to be available > until pip 1.6 at the earliest. (That does suggest "Does this let IPython > start publishing wheels?" would make a good acceptance criterion for PEP 426 > et al. It can join the setuptools metadata replacement criteria, the Linux > distro integration criteria and the Twisted plugin model handling criteria). > That’s not true, Wheel let’s you use environment markers. https://github.com/dstufft/twine/blob/master/setup.cfg#L9-L13 ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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