[Distutils] Plans for binary wheels, and PyPi and OS-X

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  -- it would be very useful if folks could easily
>> get binary wheels for OS-X
>
> We do plan to support it, but the pip devs uncovered a hole in the current
> wheel spec that means it generates the same filename on *nix systems for
> wheels that need to have different names for the download side of things to
> work properly

THanks -- but really? don't OS-X wheels get:

macosx_10_6_intel

or some such tacked on? Where does that go wrong?

> Once ensurepip has landed in Python 3.4 and pip 1.5 is released, we should
> be able to get back to updating the various metadata specs, with the aim of
> getting cross-platform wheel support in pip 1.6 :)

Getting there... thanks,

-Chris

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