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 Docutils_ Building Wheels
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:Authors: engelbert gruber; open to all Docutils developers
:Contact: docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
:Date: $Date: 2015-04-14 09:33:09 +0200 (Di, 14. Apr 2015) $
:Revision: $Revision: 7871 $
:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.

.. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

.. contents::

Abstract
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This document documents my trial to build python wheels from 
docutils. Once it is finished it might be driven into distribution or
release documentation.

Requests
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There is `feature request 43`_ :  Make setup.py build wheels. 

  Just add this to setup.cfg:

  [bdist_wheel]
  universal = 1

  See https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html#universal-wheels

  -.-.-
  
  Docutils is not fit for Universal Wheels. Docutils supports both Python 2 and
  3, but with different code (we use “2to3”). This would make it a candidate
  for "Pure Python wheels".

  https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html#pure-python-wheels

and bugs275_ : Upload wheels to pypi 

  Currently docutils does not publish any wheels on pypi. Wheels make docutils
  faster to install (no need to run setup.py, which for a large number of
  packages can take some time), and is no more difficult than uploading an
  sdist (see https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html#wheels
  for instructions).

Logbook 
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1. Add ``[bdist_wheel] universal = 0`` to setup.cfg.
2. Run ``python setup.py bdist_wheel``::

     error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

3. setuptools is too old. Install the new one by wheel or source or pip or easy...

4. try wheel ... first get wheel tar.gz and unpack.

5. try ::

     python2.7 wheel-0.24.0/wheel install setuptools-15.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

   no error. But still ``error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'``::

     $ python2.7 setup.py --version
     0.12

   Did wheel install ? If no, why no error, if yes in which place ?

   

.. _bugs275: https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/275/
.. _feature request 43: https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/43/