On 2 December 2013 07:31, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only problem I want to take off the table is the one where > multiple wheel files try to share a dynamically linked external binary > dependency.
OK. Thanks for the clarification. Can I suggest that we need to be very careful how any recommendation in this area is stated? I certainly didn't get that impression from your initial posting, and from the other responses it doesn't look like I was the only one. We're only just starting to get real credibility for wheel as a distribution format, and we need to get a very strong message out that wheel is the future, and people should be distributing wheels as their primary binary format. My personal litmus test is the scientific community - when Christoph Gohlke is distributing his (Windows) binary builds as wheels, and projects like numpy, ipython, scipy etc are distributing wheels on PyPI, rather than bdist_wininst, I'll feel like we have got to the point where wheels are "the norm". The problem is, of course, that with conda being a scientific distribution at heart, any message we issue that promotes conda in any context will risk confusion in that community. My personal interest is as a non-scientific user who does a lot of data analysis, and finds IPython, Pandas, matplotlib numpy etc useful. At the moment I can pip install the tools I need (with a quick wheel convert from wininst format). I don't want to find that in the future I can't do that, but instead have to build from source or learn a new tool (conda). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig