Python Packaging Fix: Understand Differences between Wheel and Egg; How to get local fix to wider audience? - pypi

Question

I'm trying to understand why the easy_install of pyicu works and pip install doesn't (see below). also trying to understand "What is the difference between a PyPi project with a universal wheel and one without?" Will installs be "easier?". If so, will this merge request solve the problem of polyglot not installing on an Anaconda machine?
Need help/advice/solutions on how to best resolve python project install issue that is tied to underlying dependencies. I have two local fixes in GitHub Gists but would like to know the best way to have this fix "out there" so people like me can find it. What is the normal Python Community approach? The problem centers around three projects:
polyglot - a python multilingual NLP toolkit
pyicu - Python extension wrapping IBM's International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).
pycld2 - CLD (Compact Language Detection) library as maintained by Dick Sites
The goal:
Install polyglot on a MacOSX computer running Python Anaconda Distribution
Make the fix I found available to everyone; lots of issues published about the problem.
Here's the error trace:
The Problem (Lots of them):
Core polyglot dependency, pyicu, does not properly install when you use pip install. Discovered you must use easy_install for it build properly and work on MacOSX. If you don't use the easy_install, you get:
polyglot requires icu 54.1.1 to run in Anaconda, but...
Homebrew, the MacOSX tool to install icu, only installs version 58.1. That version is too new. Old stackoverflows advise brew install icu4c to fix problem, but Homebrew evolution makes that advice obsolete now.
pyicu does not have a universal wheel; but I created a merge request to add one to pyicu. Only way to fix this is with this channel's icu, https://anaconda.org/ccordoba12/icu. conda install icu will not work, but that's the normal conda way of doing things.
*pycld2 - CLD (Compact Language Detection) becomes a problem because after I build the wheel file locally, have to download the project and run setup.py install locally. There has to be a better way to do this right?
What I've Done to Solve the problem (should I do more, what should I do next?)
Created two Gists that can successfully install polyglot on a Mac running Anaconda for Python 2.7 or Python 3.5
Python 2.7 fix
Python 3.5 fix
created the merge request for pyicu
Both Gist fixes work. But, is this error in install tied to the wheel? If I installed pyicu with easy_install, the install works. But, with pip, it doesn't?
What are the steps to take in the Python community to fix it so people can find the solution or just pip install with no problems?
I did a test, and if the wheel file is built, the pip works with no issues.