Re: [Distutils] wheels and installation time

2014-06-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 13 Jun 2014 02:01, "Donald Stufft" wrote: > > Not currently. There’s an open issue about how to handle that within Wheels as a few projects need those kinds of hooks. To elaborate a little further on that, install time scripts are one of the main motivators for "required extensions" in PEP 426

Re: [Distutils] wheels and installation time

2014-06-12 Thread Donald Stufft
Not currently. There’s an open issue about how to handle that within Wheels as a few projects need those kinds of hooks. On Jun 12, 2014, at 5:21 AM, Robin Becker wrote: > In the past reportlab used .exe packages for the various windows > distributions. However, we recently decided to use whee

[Distutils] wheels and installation time

2014-06-12 Thread Robin Becker
In the past reportlab used .exe packages for the various windows distributions. However, we recently decided to use wheels. With patches to support cross platform compilation I can build these on win xp win32 for win32 & amd64. The wheels themselves work fine. However, in the past we used to s