mercurial as wheel install

[Gregory Szorc]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 21:51 +0200, anton wrote:
> > Hi I wanted to know
> > if there will ba a whl installation
> > packet for mercurial?
>
> Not until a Windows user makes it happen, no. Are you a Windows user?


Anyone with the "wheel" package installed (`pip install wheel`) can produce
wheels via `python setup.py bdist_wheel`. Can we ask our Windows packager
to try producing wheels for the next release? Same goes for OS X as well.

Unfortunately, there are still some limitations in the wheel packaging /
naming conventions to make wheel distribution on Linux a thing. But we
shouldn't let one platform hold us back: wheels on N>0 platforms is better
than no wheels.
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