[Bf-committers] Using wheels in blender addons

[Campbell Barton]

It applies to wheels as well, they're compressed archives of Python
source code, so aren't suitable for committing to git.
It's impractical to search the code and know what changes between versions.

We can bundle generally useful modules in SVN, as we do for requests and numpy.


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Isaac Weaver <wisaac407 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently working on an addon that I would like to eventually get
> included in Blender and was wondering if it's ok to use python wheels. The
> guidelines say not to use binary files (
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Addons#Never_Do) but I'm
> wondering if that applies to wheels as well (I know the blender cloud addon
> uses a couple of wheels). Specifically, I'd like to include a wheel for
> aiohttp.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~ Isaac
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