On 25 August 2013 16:41, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2013, at 1:57 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [snip] > > I'll look at this closer, my off the cuff response isn't good but before I > commit to a side I want to dig into how it actually works currently.
The clumsiness of the __main__.__requires__ workaround aside, the main advantage this offers is that it *should* result in a relatively straightforward addition to pkg_resources to make it work with wheel files as well as eggs. That's important, because anyone that is currently doing side-by-side multi-versioning in Python is using the pkg_resources API to do it, since that's the only option currently available. If Fedora is going to switch completely to a wheel based build process, we need to be able to do it in a way that allows side-by-side imports through pkg_resources to continue to work. I'd previously considered writing a pkg_resources replacement that worked with wheels instead of eggs, but I've now realised that would be repeating one of the mistakes made with the distutils2 effort: just as we needed to account for the fact that a lot of people are currently building their projects with setuptools, we also need to account for the fact that anyone doing side-by-side imports is using pkg_resources. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
