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That doesn’t make sense either because pure python packages exist and are actively less useful if distributed as wheels

• pdimitar 3y ago
  And I have no clue what you just said. :D It serves only as a further confusion. But yeah, Python is notorious for its numerous (and likely all sub-optimal) approaches to packaging.
  • Shawnj2 3y ago
    The benefit of wheels is that they’re platform specific so that you don’t need to have a lengthy and dependency ridden compile process, you just install the one that works on your OS and architecture and you’re good. Packages written entirely in Python don’t have this problem since the code is pretty much just copied into dist-packages
    • pdimitar 3y ago
      I see, thank you, that's much better. I'd still try to shove the platform-specific stuff in a package manager and delegate that complexity to it.
      • Shawnj2 3y ago
        For various reasons that’s often not an option