On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > > So what is the benefit of including wheel with ensurepip? > > pip has an optional dependency on wheel, if you install that optional > dependency than you’ll get the implicit wheel cache enabled by default > which can drastically improve installation speeds by caching built > artifacts (i.e. ``pip instal lxml`` multiple times only compiles it > once). The goal is to get more people getting the benefits of that by > default instead of requiring them to know they need to ``pip install > wheel`` after the fact.
Thanks for the explanation. And ensurepip couldn't install wheel as part of the process of installing pip? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
