[doliveira]

Honestly I don't think I've ever used a precompiled package in Python. Every single C stuff seems to take ages and requires all that fun stuff of installing native system dependencies.

Edit: skimming through this page, precompiling seems like an afterthought, and the linked packages don't even seem to mention how to integrate third-party libraries. So I guess I can see why it doesn't deliver on its promises.

[toyg]

Probably a function of the specific set of packages you use, or the pip options you specify. Pretty much all the major C packages come as wheels these days.

[doliveira]

They all come as wheels, they just aren't precompiled.

[dgroshev]

You can try pip install pillow for a good example of how it works. I suspect there's a strong survivorship bias here, as you'd only notice the packages that don't ship with wheels.

[doliveira]

Yeah, perhaps. One I remember from last year is the cryptography and numpy package, for instance. Now they do seem to ship with binary wheels, at least for my current Python and Linux version.

Kerberos and Hadoop stuff obviously still doesn't, though. I guess the joke's on me for being stuck in this stack...

[martsa1]

Try `--only-binary :all:` to force pip to ignore sdist packages, might help avoid those slow compilations.