Provide wheel distribution on PyPI

[edmorley]

Hi!

Please could this package also by made available as a wheel on PyPI?
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slugid/1.0.7

Wheels have the following advantages:

• Faster installation time
• Allows the wheel cache to work even when using the new pip hash-checking mode
• Allows tools to statically inspect the package metadata without having to execute untrusted code.
• ...and more - see: http://pythonwheels.com

This package is pure Python and supports both Python 2 and 3, so can be distributed as a "universal wheel":
https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/#wheels

To save having to pass --universal to setup.py each time, the pref can be saved in setup.cfg:

[bdist_wheel]
universal=1

The Python packaging guide recommends using Twine to upload packages:
https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/#uploading-your-project-to-pypi

So with the setup.cfg as above, the steps for building/uploading a new release are then:

$ pip install -U twine setuptools wheel
$ rm -rf dist/ build/
$ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
$ twine upload dist/*

The PyPI package listing will then display two entries for the new release, one with type "Source" and the other "Python Wheel".

Many thanks :-)

[edmorley]

I don't suppose you could push the wheel for 1.0.7, or else generate a 1.0.8 with both wheel and sdist? :-)