Wheel also has its own installer. It hasn't received as much attention since pip gained support.
It would be good to pay some additional attention to the "[unzipped] wheel as sys.path entry" case. It will usually work; most packages do not use the .data/ directories for anything but scripts; these wheels are very similar to eggs. https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel/src/tip/wheel/tool/__init__.py?at=default#cl-141 On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3 December 2014 at 14:47, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: >>>> Am I missing something about binary support with wheels? >>> >>> I don't think so. >> >> Agreed. >> >> It seems to me that the key issue currently is that for binary >> distribution, pip only supports wheels, whereas buildout only supports >> eggs. > > (And .exe) > >> There are other tools which also tend to only support one or the >> other (e.g., easy_install -> egg, distil -> wheel) but I think they >> are the minority. I don't know relative popularity between pip and >> buildout - I suspect it depends on the community involved. >> >> For a project, decisions on which binary formats to provide probably >> need to be based on the expected numbers of users of each tool. >> >> The wheel and egg formats are similar enough to allow auto-conversion >> (wheel convert does egg->wheel, I don't know if there's a tool to do >> wheel->egg, but it wouldn't be hard to write) but expecting users to >> maintain local converted repositories is a burden in itself, so the >> question remains what binaries to upload to PyPI. > > For now, it would be humane to upload both wheel and egg. :) > > We're happy to move buildout to using wheel. It will make me > very sad if we have to do that by invoking pip as a subprocess, > but I'll cope if I have to. > > I think the next step is for me to enumerate buildout's packaging api > requirements and desires. I'll try to get that done this weekend. > (I'll need to spend some time refreshing my memory on some things.) > > Jim > > -- > Jim Fulton > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
