Is it possible to set

--prefer-binary

for pip? The

only_binary

and

no_binary

options are great, but I'd love to more generally restrict the amount of CPU we're spending building from source. Finding these packages that are getting built from source can be challenging when a lot of third party deps are involved.

pex

does support this

--prefer-wheel, --prefer-binary, --no-prefer-wheel, --no-prefer-binary

Whether to prefer older binary distributions to newer source distributions (prefer not building wheels). (default: False)

however, I don't see that there is any option for this from

pants

to leverage that (yet..)

If you care to open a ticket I might be able to take a stab at it ~this month.