On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:32:37 -0400 Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > > Compared to Windows, and even somewhat OS/X, the win for uploading wheels > to PyPI is miniscule: pretty much everybody developing on Linux has or > can get the toolchain required to build a wheel from an sdist, and can > share those built wheels across the hosts she knows to be compatible.
That's a dramatically uninformed statement, to put it politely... Some packages have difficult-to-meet build dependencies, and can also take a long time to do so. llvmlite, the package I'm talking about, builds against the development libraries for LLVM 3.6 (a non-trivial download and install, assuming you can find binaries of that LLVM version for your OS version.... otherwise, count ~20 minutes to compile it with a modern quad-core CPU). We regularly have bug reports from people failing to compile the package on Linux (and OS X), which is why we are considering the option of pre-built binary wheels (in addition to the conda packages we already provide, and which some people are reluctant to use). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
