On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:50 PM Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So perhaps I'm missing something, but why are we talking about trying > to shoehorn a legacy design into Wheel? Why wouldn't we leave > bdist_egg alone and start trying to find a better way to replace it? > We could avoid over-complicating Wheel and we could spend time > polishing whatever we come up with. > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig It is because wheel is almost identical to egg, but the name 'newegg' was already in use by a major online retailer. Possibly adding the one missing egg feature to wheel would save someone some time. Maybe you would want to give 'extracted wheel in its own directory' a different name, or no name, to avoid confusion.
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