Comment 4 for bug 668996

One doesn't preclude the other.

For what it is worth, there seem to be limitations with the wheel design that might cause a problem for my uses. One is that wheel doesn't attempt to make binaries for linux. Of course, there's a good reason for that, which is that it is impossible to make one that is actually reliable portable to multiple linuxes. But, distutils/setuptools/distribute/new-setuptools/eggs make a half-assed attempt at it, and that might be better for some uses than wheel's principled refusal to try at all.