Did you know that the "wheel convert" command masks wheels from eggs? On Mar 24, 2013 5:48 AM, "holger krekel" <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote:
> Hi Richard, all, > > two first notes on PEP439. > > backward compat with present-day release files: the PEP should state > it as a goal or at least discuss it in some depth. In that context, the > choice of providing a bootstrap for pip rather than easy_install needs > reasoning. One problem with pip, compared to easy_install, is > that it doesn't support eggs which is a problem particularly on > Windows machines where often no fitting C compiler is available. If the > remedy here is to support wheels and recommend it's use, it is still a > backward compatibility problem: many users will not be able to use the > builtin-supported installer to install todays existing egg release files. > > setuptools and distlib: Even if Python3.4+ had a mature distlib > providing minimal setuptools functionality, how would it work for the > typical "python setup.py install" which is invoked by pip? Often those > setup.py scripts depend on a setuptools package. > > I am highlighting these two backward-compat aspects because otherwise > we might run into this problem: http://xkcd.com/927/ and i understood > that most people involved in improving the packaging ecology want > to avoid that :) > > best, > holger > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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