Wheel generation in pip2pi

[prophile]

It would be great to have some kind of --wheel option which generates wheels where only source packages are downloaded.

[offero]

I second this. I need to generate wheels as well instead of just downloading tar.gz files.

[wolever]

That would be awesome!

Unfortunately I don't know off the top of my head how to do this… but if you can make suggestions I'd be more than happy to investigate them!

[colinhoglund]

I added the --build-wheels option to pip2tgz and pip2pi in my fork https://github.com/wolever/pip2pi/compare/master...colinhoglund:master.

When this option is enabled it simply runs pip wheel on the passed in packages. This is not terribly efficient since the command pip2pi /tmp/packages some_package -w -z would make three different calls to pip. However, any alternative would likely break existing functionality.

Also, adding this functionality makes the entry_point pip2tgz somewhat confusing (since it can also build wheels), but changing that also has compatibility implications.

I'd appreciate any feedback/recommendations. Also, let me know if this looks useful and I can submit a PR.

[jayvdb]

This would be very handy; has anyone looked at https://github.com/wolever/pip2pi/pull/65 to see if it is save-able.

[colinhoglund]

This would be very handy; has anyone looked at #65 to see if it is save-able.

Happy to reopen if the maintainers are interested in merging. However, I am no longer using this code as I ended up writing my own tool that separates the concern of building the package index and relies on pip itself to handle package building.