[Pythonmac-SIG] Package for building DMG installers from pip requirements

[Charlie Clark]

Am .09.2014, 16:10 Uhr, schrieb Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>:

> Sure, but that is a lot of setup for one morning of installs.   The
> benefit of the point-click installer is that the student can download
> everything they need in their own time.

devpi is pretty easy to setup but I understand your point-click, er, point.

>> Purely regarding wheels - as far as I can tell they're not perfect yet.  
>> We
>> dropped them from openpyxl because we couldn't stop them packaging
>> "kitchen sink". This has already disappointed one person but  
>> particularly
>> for people who just want something installed, we only want to ship the
>> package.

> Would you mind saying more about what went wrong there?  Wheels will
> install all the listed dependencies, but if there are dependencies you
> don't want, and are not necessary, then the package maintainer needs
> to know...  That would be the same for wheels as for a source install,
> as far as I know.

It's not dependencies but not respecting the exclusions we use for sdist.

Charlie
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