Daniel Hill

I'm not sure what the project priorities are, but from a user perspective I totally agree. Having pre-built wheels available would be wonderful as helping less-advanced programmers get started using...

Ok. We have had some experience with PyPi and binaries with project [GEKKO](https://github.com/BYU-PRISM/GEKKO) and I think we should be able to figure something out. I will probably be relatively busy...

As a note to myself and anyone working on this. If we were to release this as a conda package rather than a PyPi package then we might be able...

Good point. I'm guessing that people really looking to maximize performance would opt for a manual install anyway as it would allow for configuration of linear solver packages and things...

So I took a look at it and it looks pretty simple so far. I think `setup.py` just needed to be converted from whatever it was (easy_install?) to the pip...

Ok, looks like I completely missed the majority of the work then, but thanks for the direction. I have not had any experience with packages that require compilation of other...

I actually tried simply running `python setup.py bdist_wheel` in a fresh environment first. It failed because `numpy.distutils` was being called before `setup`, so numpy was not installed in the fresh...

Searching into this a little deeper the class that seems to cause an issue (`idaes.core.base.process_block._IndexedActivityCoeffStateBlock`) is not even ever defined in the source code, so the class name itself must...