On 25 August 2013 15:02, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > 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. >
OK, I get that. But I want to avoid referring to it as "wheel format" because that's what eggs did, having 3 distinct formats, all used for subtly different things and it meant that people had a confused view of "what an egg was". I'd rather not promote the same confusion for wheels. Thanks for the various comments that have been made. I think I'm clear where I stand now - I have no objection to the idea of the proposal, but (1) I'd rather the on-disk format was clearly distinguished from wheels as it's a runtime format rather than a distribution format, (2) I don't really want to add an option to pip to install in this format, but if we do it should work for sdists as well as wheels (notwithstanding any longer-term goal to deprecate installing from sdists) and (3) I don't want to see adding wheel files to sys.path as ever becoming a mainstream way of working (that's what "pkg_resources supports the whl format" means to me - which is why I want to see the unpacked format referred to as something other than "wheel"). Paul
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