Re: python-wheel backport to Wheezy
On Jul 13, 2014, at 07:08 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>What packages are there that need it?
That's my question too.
There isn't much even in jessie that should *require* .whl files, and we've
clearly outlined the acceptable use cases in Python Policy. They are tightly
constrained to those that are needed to support virtualenv and pyvenv.
However, it's possible that upstream developers might want to generate wheels
for upload to PyPI, via the setuptools bdist_wheel command. python-wheels
provides that capability. Still, this isn't a use case where *distro*
packages requires them, so it shouldn't be a pressing need for backporting.
I.e. on wheezy you could just install wheel locally from PyPI (in a virtualenv
if necessary) and that would support this use case.
Cheers,
-Barry
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