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

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