On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Initial wheel PEP text up in approximate PEP format at > https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/5ffb06c1de6 > > Is it OK to push this to python.org/peps?
Yes, much better to have that as an initial draft rather than the current placeholder. I do have a comment prompted by the existing FAQ entry attempting to explain the ".data" suffix. I'd favour something more like ".dist-scheme" or ".dist-paths", to provide a better link to the relevant part of the sysconfig API (http://docs.python.org/dev/library/sysconfig.html#installation-paths). The PEP should also link to that section of the sysconfig docs when first discussing the "root-is-purelib" setting. It's also not quite true that the contents of a wheel aren't importable - since they're still just a zipfile, they can still be added to an import path in the same manner as egg files. It's just not *recommended* to use them that way, as the format is designed primarily for use in distribution rather than runtime imports. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
