Support for bdist installations

[vbabiy]

Egg's stink. But installing from binaries is important; not everybody wants to install a compiler and a zillion dependencies just to use some python package. Distutils already supports a bdist format; could pip support installation from that?

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/issue/209
• Originally Reported By: Anonymous
• Originally Created At: 2011-02-11 15:15:57

[mitsuhiko]

I have use for this as well. Are there any reasons why it's not supported?

[sholsapp]

I've stumbled across a use for this as well.

[dsully]

+1

[allancaffee]

This would be a major improvement to pip IMHO.

[qwcode]

there is an effort to add support for the new "wheel" binary format

#694

wheel docs: http://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

[qwcode]

wheel is the direction we're headed: #817