> On Dec 3, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 3 December 2014 at 16:05, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Wheel also has its own installer. It hasn't received as much attention >>> since pip gained support. >> >> That's actually a very good point - the wheel project has its own >> "install a wheel" API, not just the command line tool. If that's all >> buildout needs, it may be a simple way of adding wheel support. If >> buildout needs "the other stuff" that pip/setuptools provides, around >> discovery and downloading from PyPI, version/requirements checking, >> script wrappers, etc, then that's a bigger issue of course. > > Yup. Buildout uses setuptools to find distributions. > > I suppose the wheel installer library could facilitate adding wheel > support to setuptools. Maybe someone on the buildout team should > look at that. My guess is that adding discovery of wheels in indexes and > such probably isn't that hard. >
Installing Wheels in general isn’t that hard either TBH. It probably wouldn’t be a ton of work to add support for that to setuptools. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
