On 3 February 2013 14:41, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > The neat thing about wheel is that you can install them without having the > software used to build them. So we might try to provide a very simple wheel > installer script with Python that did not even depend on DistUtils. You > would be able to install pip etc with that tool. There is no need to put > wheel directly into DistUtils.
The other side of the equation, adding a bdist_wheel command to distutils should *also* be simple. As command classes are essentially independent code, it's not even really going to violate whatever remains of the "distutils is frozen" philosophy. Is there any mileage to submitting a patch to the Python stdlib that implements a bdist_wheel distutils subcommand and a wheel installer in the stdlib? I'm willing to write that patch based on Daniel's existing wheel code if no-one else is willing to, but only if there's likely to be some level of support from python-dev (for example, if Antoine and Nick are in general agreement on the principle, I'd be willing to write the code and we could see where the subsequent debate leads). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
