[Distutils] Released: pip 7.0 and virtualenv 13.0

[Wes Turner]

Thanks!

Someone (or I) could also update these:
* https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/pip/meta.yaml
* https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/virtualenv/meta.yaml

*
https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/virtualenvwrapper/meta.yaml
On May 21, 2015 11:21 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I'm happy to say that I've just cut the releases of pip 7.0 and virtualenv
> 13.0
> and I have uploaded them to PyPI. For the full list of changes go visit the
> respective changelogs, however the biggest change here is that in pip 7.0
> when
> pip finds and downloads a sdist, instead of installing that sdist directly
> it will instead build a wheel of that and cache it locally. From then on
> out
> it will use that cached wheel to install instead of downloading and
> building
> the sdist each time. This can have a profound impact upon installation
> speed.
>
>
> For instance, taking a look at the popular lxml library:
>
>     # Without a locally cached wheel
>     $ time pip install lxml
>       ...
>     pip install lxml  36.00s user 1.40s system 98% cpu 38.117 total
>
>     # The next time, with a primed cache.
>     $ time pip install lxml
>       ...
>     pip install lxml  0.61s user 0.10s system 94% cpu 0.750 total
>
>
> Some important notes about this new feature:
>
> * If the wheel project is not installed, then this feature will be
> disabled,
>   however get-pip.py and virtualenv both will now install wheel by default.
>
> * If attempting to actually *build* the wheel fails for any reason, it will
>   fall back to the older method of simply installing the sdist directly.
>
> * If a project cannot be installed correctly from a wheel, but it can
>   successfully build a wheel, you can disable using wheels for that project
>   by adding the flag --no-binary project1,project2,project3 to tell pip
> not to
>   use binaries for those projects. You can use the :all: psuedo identifier
> to
>   disable all wheels.
>
>
> I'm pretty excited about this release, caching built wheels is going to
> result
> in a tremendous speedup for a lot of common cases. As with any big change
> there
> is a pretty good change that this will cause breakages for some percentage
> of
> projects as well as have bugs within the system itself. As always, if you
> find
> a bug please feel free to open an issue up on the pip issue tracker at
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues.
>
> ---
> Donald Stufft
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