On 22 May 2015 at 05:21, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm happy to say that I've just cut the releases of pip 7.0 and virtualenv > 13.0 > and I have uploaded them to PyPI. For the full list of changes go visit the > respective changelogs, however the biggest change here is that in pip 7.0 when > pip finds and downloads a sdist, instead of installing that sdist directly > it will instead build a wheel of that and cache it locally. From then on out > it will use that cached wheel to install instead of downloading and building > the sdist each time. This can have a profound impact upon installation speed.
Nice! I've been looking forward to this for ages. Thanks to all who worked on the change - in particular Robert Collins who did the bulk of the implementation. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
