On Aug 25, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As regards Nick's proposal: > > 1. "An option (or options) to pip, telling it to just drop a wheel file (or > the unpacked contents of the wheel as a directory) into site-packages instead > of installing the distribution directly as the default version." Well, if > it's in site-packages, it *is* importable/installed. That's how site-packages > works. So I don't understand what "instead of installing" means. But if > --target does what you want then go for it. If you want something different > then I think it's likely a bad idea, but I'd need details of how it would > work to be sure.
As I understand it Nick means to take the .whl unzip it into a folder named foo-whatever….whl and put that folder into site-packages. Basically the exact same structure as happens with .egg folders except with Wheels. > > 2. "Support for the ".whl" filename format and internal layout in > pkg_resources". No, very definitely -1. The wheel format is a *distribution* > format and pkg_resources is a *runtime* mechanism. Misxing the two is the key > mistake (in my mind) that setuptools made, and we do not want to do so again. > If you need a multiversion runtime layout for pkg_resources, then let's > define it in a PEP, and write installers to put packages into that format if > we need to. But let's not just reuse wheel as that format - that was not its > intent. If a distribution format better than wheel comes along in the future, > we should be able to replace it without needing to break everyone's runtime > code because pkg_resources doesn't know wbout it. > > Paul ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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