It is usually pretty easy to build from sdist. Wheels are convenient but I
don't think they should be required.
On Nov 4, 2014 6:38 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 November 2014 21:30, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote:
> >> One of the problems though is that there is plenty of packages on Pypi
> >> that are not there yet.
> >
> > One issue currently is that source distributions are much simpler to
> make: I can make a sdist without having wheel installed, and more
> importantly I can make a single sdist that works for both Python 2 and 3.
> That means I can make a release of a Python 3-compatible package without
> having to install Python 3 myself (or the reverse for people who are in a
> Python 3-only world), relying completely on a service such as Travis to run
> tests with Python 3.
>
> If your code is single-source (i.e. doesn't need something like 2to3)
> then you can put in your setup.cfg
>
> [bdist_wheel]
> universal=1
>
> and the wheel you build will support both Python 2 and 3, even if you
> built it with Python 2. Conceded you need wheel installed in order to
> build wheels. It's a pretty small/fast download, and you only need to
> install it once, but your point is true. Is it a big enough issue to
> justify merging wheel into (say) setuptools? I don't think so
> personally, but that would be the only way to avoid the need to
> install it separately.
>
> Paul
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