> On May 27, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27 May 2016 at 17:28, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> So I kind of like the idea of making wheels the default for distributing on >> PyPi always -- even for pure python modules. And wheels are trivial to build >> from pure python packages -- so why not? > > It would be *really* nice to have some sort of metadata/flag that said > "this project is pure Python". Normally, what I want is not *quite* > --only-binary, but rather "only binary except for pure Python where > I'm happy to take a source distribution". But AFAIK, there's no way > for pip to know that :-(
The flip side is it should be trivial for pure Python projects to release wheels, often requiring them to do nothing different except ensuring `wheel` is installed and running ``setup.py sdist bdist_wheel` instead of just `setup.py sdist`. — Donald Stufft _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
