On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:23 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As I recall, it was in the original version of the PEP/spec and it was >> always an intended feature. The wheel file for the wheel project >> itself is (deliberately) runnable as a zip file, so that you can >> bootstrap into the wheel world using the "wheel install" command. > > I just read every version of the PEP that has ever existed in Mercurial > and no version besides Nick's most recent contains any text about > the importability of Wheels besides that one of the differences of > Wheel and Egg is that Wheel is an installation format and Egg is > importable.
FWIW, Nick clarified this aspect of wheels on this list at least once -- back in Sep 2012 when the PEP was first introduced. See this email: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2012-September/018959.html "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." --Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
