Can I upload a binary wheel to a local devpi on Linux?

Question

Is it possible to use "pip wheel" to upload a binary wheel on Linux, to a local devpi server? Or do I need to get to a setup.py and do an upload from there? It seems a shame to build the wheel without need of a setup.py (it's taken care of behind the scenes), only to need a setup.py to upload the result.

This makes me wonder: C extensions PyPI currently only allows uploading platform-specific wheels for Windows and Mac OS X. It is still useful to create wheels for these platforms, as it avoids the need for your users to compile the package when installing.

I'm doing pip -v -v -v wheel numpy (for example), and I have a pip.conf and .pypirc (both pointing at our local devpi).

Answer 1

Try to use the devpi upload with the --formats option set to bdist_wheel:

$ devpi upload --formats bdist_wheel