From a4e3e4474f71d021ae5e42cec4002de9ca09dd65 2016-08-15 19:11:58 From: Thomas Kluyver Date: 2016-08-15 19:11:58 Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #9873 from Carreau/no-universal-wheels Warn about universal wheels in the docs. --- diff --git a/docs/source/coredev/release_process.rst b/docs/source/coredev/release_process.rst index feec4f8..16b8e6a 100644 --- a/docs/source/coredev/release_process.rst +++ b/docs/source/coredev/release_process.rst @@ -176,8 +176,10 @@ Run the ``release`` script, this step requires having a current wheel, Python ./tools/release This makes the tarballs, zipfiles, and wheels, and put them under the ``dist/`` -folder. Be sure to test the ``wheel`` and the ``sdist`` locally before uploading -them to PyPI. +folder. Be sure to test the ``wheels`` and the ``sdist`` locally before +uploading them to PyPI. We do not use an universal wheel as each wheel +installs an ``ipython2`` or ``ipython3`` script, depending on the version of +Python it is built for. Using an universal wheel would prevent this. Use the following to actually upload the result of the build::