diff --git a/docs/html/cli/pip_wheel.rst b/docs/html/cli/pip_wheel.rst index 153d6925d4e..bfd19a0ccb1 100644 --- a/docs/html/cli/pip_wheel.rst +++ b/docs/html/cli/pip_wheel.rst @@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ Description This is now covered in :doc:`../reference/build-system/index`. +Differences to ``build`` +------------------------ + +`build `_ is a simple tool which can among other things build +wheels for projects using PEP 517. It is comparable to the execution of ``pip wheel --no-deps .``. +It can also build source distributions which is not possible with ``pip``. +``pip wheel`` covers the wheel scope of ``build`` but offers many additional features. + Options ======= diff --git a/news/11254.trivial.rst b/news/11254.trivial.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d