On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 December 2014 at 16:05, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> 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. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
