On 5 November 2017 at 10:48, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:46:59 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> * ensurepip gains the ability to also install bundled wheel files > > Why? Why wouldn't you put the wheel directly in site-packages on > install?
I'm not quite sure what you mean? It needs to be "installed", in the sense of being unpacked into site-packages, and the ensurepip mechanism is already able to do that for pip and setuptools, so adding an extra wheel to install wouldn't be too hard. If we don't install like that, people won't be able to easily upgrade typing by just using "pip install --upgrade typing". Wheels don't support simply being added to sys.path the way that eggs did, if that's what you mean. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
