[Distutils] If you want wheel to be successful, provide a build server.

[Donald Stufft]

> On May 26, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe there could be a way to say "the most recent release that has a wheel
>> for my platform". That would help with the problem of binaries not being
>> available concurrently with a new source distribution.
> 
> Yes, that would certainly help get over some of the immediate problems.
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance - but does ``--only-binary`` search for an
> earlier release with a binary or just bomb out if the latest release
> does not have a binary?   It would also be good to have a flag to say
> "if this is pure Python go ahead and use the source, otherwise error".
>   Otherwise I guess we'd have to rely on everyone with a pure Python
> package generating wheels.

I believe it would find the latest version that has a wheel available,
I could be misremembering though.

> 
> It would be very good to work out a plan for new Python releases as
> well.  We really need to get wheels up to pypi a fair while before the
> release date, and it's easy to forget to do that, because, at the
> moment, we don't have much testing infrastructure to make sure that a
> range of wheel installs are working OK.
> 

I want to get something setup that would allow people to only need to upload
a source release to PyPI and then have wheels automatically built for them
(but not mandate that- Projects that wish it should always be able to control
their wheel generation). I don’t know what that would specifically look
like, if someone is motivated to work on it I’m happy to help figure out what
it should look like and provide guidance where I can, otherwise it’ll wait
until I get around to it.

—
Donald Stufft