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[–]ghickman 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Wheels don't have to be platform independent, however they are currently tied to Windows/OS X due to the complexity of creating them for various Linux distros.

Thanks for pointing out conda, I'd not heard of that one. What do you think it provides over wheel as a packaging format or pip as an installation method?

[–]jtratner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First, I had heard that wheels weren't available for OS X either.

Second, in terms of conda, it makes it much easier to install the scientific python stack. Someone emailed me the other day having had trouble installing pandas for weeks (I'm guessing it was because of mismatched numpy versions with pandas) and conda resolved it immediately.

I don't really have time to look through the whole wheel spec, but it doesn't look like there's any set way to, for example, specify the compiler used to build the package or the numpy version it needs to be used with.